"1. Somos todos culpáveis pela ruína do planeta A saúde do mundo está um asco. 'Somos todos responsáveis', clamam a vozes de alarme universal, e esta generalização absolve: se todos nós we are responsible, no one is. Such as rabbits, the new breed of technocrats environment. It is the highest birthrate in the world: experts generate more experts and experts involved in dealing with the issue of ambiguity in cellophane. They manufacture the hazy language of exhortations to "sacrifice all" in the statements of governments and the solemn international agreements that no one enforces. These cataracts of words - spam that threatens to become an ecological catastrophe comparable to the ozone hole - do not unfold for free. The official language drowns reality to grant impunity to the consumer society, which is imposed as a model in the name of development and large companies that they extract the juice. But statistics confess. The data reveal hidden underneath the chatter that 20 percent of humanity commits 80 per cent of the aggressions against nature, the crime that the killers and suicide call is all mankind who will pay the consequences of land degradation, the poisoning of air, poisoned water, the madness of climate and depletion of exhaustible natural resources. Mrs. Harlem Brundtland, who heads the government of Norway, has recently proven that if the 7 billion people on the planet consumed the same as the developed countries of the West, "would 10 missing planets like our own to meet all their needs. "An experience impossible. But the rulers of the southern countries that promise entry into the First World, the magic passport which will make us all rich and happy, should not only be prosecuted for theft . They are not just enjoy ourselves, not: moreover these rulers are committing the crime of condoning crime. Because this system of life which presents itself as paradise, based on the exploitation of others and the annihilation of nature, is what is tainted in the body, poisoning the soul and leave us without world.
2. It green which is painted green Now the giants of the chemical industry are advertising their green color, and the World Bank washes his image by repeating the word ecology to each page of their reports and dyeing green their loans. "In terms of our loans for strict environmental standard," explained the chairman of the supreme seat of the world. We are all environmentalists, until some concrete measure to limit freedom of contamination. When the Parliament of Uruguay adopted a shy law protecting the environment, companies that release poison into the air and water rot suddenly pulled out his newly purchased green mask and shouted their truth in terms that could be summarized thus: "the defenders of the nature of poverty lawyers are dedicated to sabotage the economic development and ward off foreign investment." The World Bank, by contrast, is the main promoter of wealth, development and foreign investment. Perhaps by bringing together so many virtues, the Bank will handle, at the UN, the newly created Fund for Global Environment. This tax will have a bad conscience a little money, 100 times less than they had asked the environmentalists to fund projects that will not destroy nature. Intent unquestionably unavoidable conclusion: that these projects require a special fund, the World Bank is to admit, in fact, that all his other projects are weak for the environment. The World Bank is called, like the International Monetary Fund is called, but these twins live, and decide to charge in Washington. Who pays, commands, and numerous technocracy ever spit on the plate where he eats. Being, as the largest creditor of the Third World, the World Bank that rules our country captive under debt service to pay their foreign creditors $ 250,000 per minute, and imposes its economic policy depending on the money grants and promises. The deification of the market, buying less and paying increasingly worse, it allows the flea braise major cities in the world, drugged by the religion of consumption, while the fields are depleted, the rotting waters that feed them and a dry crust covers deserts that were once forests.
3. Between capital and labor, the environment is neutral it can be said of Al Capone, but he was a gentleman: the good Al always sent flowers to the funerals of their victims. The corporate giants of the chemical industry, petroleum and automobile expenses paid much of the Eco 92. The international conference in Rio de Janeiro not mind the agony of the planet. And that conference, called the Earth Summit did not condemn multinationals that produce pollution and her live, and not even uttered a word against the unlimited freedom of trade which makes possible the sale of poison. In the great masquerade the end of the millennium, until the chemical is dressed in green. The ecological distress disturbs the sleep of the major laboratories in the world, to help nature are inventing new biotech crops. But these scientific solicitude does not purport to find plants more resistant to pests without chemical help, but look for new plants are resistant to pesticides and herbicides that these laboratories produce. Of the 10 largest seed companies in the world, six pesticides manufacture (Sandoz, Ciba-Geigy, Dekalb, Pfiezer, Upjohn, Shell, ICI). The chemical industry has masochistic tendencies. The recovery of the planet or what remains of it involves the termination of the impunity of money and human freedom. The neutral ecology, which looks like before with the gardening, it is complicit in the injustice of a world where healthy food, clean water, clean air and silence does not sound all rights and privileges but the few who can afford it . Chico Mendes, the rubber workers, fell murdered in late 1988, the Brazilian Amazon, by believing what he believed: that the ecological militancy can not be divorced from the social struggle. Chico believed that the Amazon rainforest can not be saved while you do not land reform in Brazil. Five years after the crime, the Brazilian bishops have complained that more than 100 rural workers are murdered each year in the struggle for land, and estimated that four million peasants out of work for cities abandoning their plantations in the interior. Adjusting the numbers for each country, the bishops' statement portrays all of Latin America. The large Latin American cities, swollen to bursting by the incessant invasion of exiles from the field, are an ecological disaster, a catastrophe that can not be understood or change within the boundaries of ecology, deaf to the cry against social and blind political commitment.
4. Nature is out of us. In his 10 commandments, God forgot to mention the nature. Among the orders that sent us from Mount Sinai, the Lord would have added, for example: "Honor the nature of which you belong." But that has not occurred to him. Five centuries ago, when America was seized by the world market, civilization invasive ecology confused with idolatry. The communion with nature was a sin. And deserved punishment. According to the chronicles of the Conquest, the indigenous nomads who used to dress never bark peeled the entire trunk, not to destroy the tree, and the sedentary Indians planted crops and with different rest periods, not to tire the land. The civilization which had imposed the devastating monoculture export crops could not understand the integrated nature, and confused them with the demonic vocation or ignorance. For civilization is said to be western, Christian, nature was a ferocious beast that had to tame and punish in order to make it work like a machine, put our service always and forever. The nature that was eternal, was due in slavery. Very recently we learned that nature is tired, like us, their children, and knew, as we can die murdered. Have not spoken to submit to nature, until now their torturers tell that it is protecting it. But in both either case, subject nature and nature protection, it is beyond us. The civilization that confounds the clocks with time, growth and development with the big man with greatness, it also confuses the nature of the landscape, while the world, labyrinth without a center, is dedicated to breaking its own sky. "
Galeano, Eduardo, resumenlatinoamericano.org
