Just ahead of Manaus, the waters of the Rio Negro meet the Solimões. For it was there that the CNBB Brotherhood campaign launched this year. There could be no more appropriate place full of symbolism than this. The opening came on a raft, integrated with nature, with the simplicity of the magnitude of water the size of the Amazon. How much pride, how much running around, how much obsession with the accumulation of goods, how much need created unnecessary, how ostentatious superficiality must be washed in the waters that nourish life, greater motivation of the current campaign.
If simple, so remarkable, the launch of the campaign in favor of life happens in a timely manner. When dry as the region of Bage, in contrast to the flooding of St. Lawrence, together with the size of events tsunami of Tokyo and many other demonstrations of climate change are compounded, can not help but reflect on the cause of all this. There is a trend that brings us into a false comfort of civilization to say that the catastrophic events always occurred, even when there were no humans on the planet. Humans have been too lavish in justifying its attacks against nature, with the arguments that the reason gives us. However, just close your eyes at the entrance of the night when the rare moments of silence has allowed us to know that we humans are interfering heavily in the balance of nature. When we dry plains took the place of water, when we overthrew the homeless flora biodiversity, when we burn fuels heat the atmosphere. If disaster phenomena always occurred, we accelerated and induced to alienate ourselves.
When the end of the Eco-92, for 19 years, plus an opportunity because of the campaign as it prepares for the Rio +20 next year, in the empty auditorium of the event which brought together 179 countries, almost all signatories to Agenda 21, it was a silence on the size of the world. The empty chairs emanated a feeling that there was more innocent. All of us in different proportions and measures, but directly, but even by collusion, we are co-responsible for environmental mismanagement. Therefore, the Brotherhood campaign is a campaign of all.
As the waters of Rio Negro Solimões to join, so we are invited to add up all the creatures of Creation Universal. The silence of the empty chairs at the end of the Eco-92 rises the cry of the birth pains of the current campaign for life, which we are not owners or managers, but cohabiting.
José Alberto Wenzel / Geologist of Fepam
newspaper Gazeta do Sul, 13/03/2011 - http://is.gd/q3SlSZ
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