A obsolescência programada nos discursos da ONU: uma análise crítica

Abstract

This work seeks to analyze how International Organizations address, through their official documents and reports, planned obsolescence in the context of environmental issues. It is based on the understanding, as proposed by Nye (1977), Susskind (1994), and O’Neill (2009, that international negotiations on the global environmental agenda depend on non-governmental actors whose organizations provide recommendations and guidelines to both developed and developing countries. The question arises as to whether these solutions lead to real solutions in the face of the climate crisis. The origin of planned obsolescence and its historiography is outlined as a marketing strategy for economic revitalization following the 1929 crisis. Drawing on insights from the theory of capitalist realism as presented by Fischer (2009), the relationship between planned obsolescence and late capitalism is articulated, with the former being a fundamental mechanism of the latter's structure. The hypothesis is that planned obsolescence has not been understood and addressed at the international level as a fundamentally capitalist structural problem, as evidenced by the analysis of the report "A Long-Term Vision: Exploring the Extension of Product Lifetimes" from UNEP (2017). A qualitative research approach was followed, using document analysis and an inductive approach. Keywords: planned obsolescence; international