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AUTODIDACT
ENVIRONMENTALIST
INDIGENOUS TRIBAL LEADER
FOUNDER OF THE INDIGENOUS CULTURE CORE
HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES CATEGORY
NETWORK COORDINATOR OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FOREST
30 years ago i went to visit some people that live
in the forest, the Yanom�mi.
They lived isolated from the world, they didn't know
about the existence of this global world which
we know. They believed they were
the only people that lived in the planet.
Maybe there were one or two indians still hiding
in the forest, but they believed they were
the people of the land.
They are children of"Omam" who is the creator of the world
creator of the Earth.
And a friend of mine who was starting to talk
with people from out of his world asked me:
Is it true that there are many people out there?
Many people in the world,are there many people, many white?
I talked to him: yes, in the world there are many, many
many white. Then he said: but are they so many?
I said:they are many they are like the stars
of the sky, like the ants in the whole forest.
And one day they will get here.
Then he got scared and thus talked to me:
But are they so many like this? I said: they are.
He said: how do they get food for everyone?
Then i told him about all the artifices that the world
used to feed themselves.
After that he asked: where they put all their waste?
These two questions that have been made to me
about how we feed the humanity and where
the humanity throw its waste, to me were
the two more intelligent questions
that i ever heard
because these questions the humanity had to ask itself.
How does an indigenous tribe that always lived in the forest
and that had no contact with all this production of
knowledge out here kept in its heart
the profund feeling that the Earth has a limit?
And this understanding that the Earth has a limit, guides
these people, for example regarding the occupation
they do of the spaces inside the forest.
Do not have too many people in the same area of the forest
because the forest becomes ill.
So the people distribute itself in a
balanced way inside the forest, they move in these
spaces in a cerimonial manner, reverently
nobody runs over the forest to make their
survival there.
The Earth is our mother.
It is a poetic expression that anyone
agree with it, but there are many people renting the mother
selling the mother slashing the mother
taking a mountain from here the reserve ... the biosphere
from the "Serra do Espinha�o" to put it in the containers
and ship it on a vessel to be consumed in other markets.
This plunder of the landscape the withdrawal of the resources
of nature, it needs to be balanced.
What inspires me most in insist on the idea of
human beings be involved in his life here on Earth
is that one commandment of indigenous thought that says:
we must walk here on Earth stepping on softly
like a bird that flies through the sky and afterwards
you look and there is no trace of it.
If humans leave a trail on Earth
he is not sustainable.
How can we change the place where we live
which in this case is Brazil and the world more sustainable?
This is a question which is as if it was
embedded one within another. It's that idea of
you being able to act in the place where you live, being able to
think where you are in te world, in the planet
act locally think globally.
So it's hard for most people
to be able to maintain this awareness that
what we do here in the place where we are
impacts the rest of the planet where we live.
But we need to walk the new generations need
to follow this trail and learn to do this exercise.
We can no longer imagine that we
live alone. There are no more possibilities of a tribe
of a civilization, of a people living alone.
We are all hopelessly
linked, so the involvement of human
communities in the planet is a urgent necessity, because
thats the only way we will share the zeal
by this common house which is the planet Earth. 00:06:10:19 255:255:255:255 *END PART 1*