Amazonia! A Threat That Afflicts All
saturday, 01/14/06 - 08h PM
Belém - Pará - Amazonian - Brasil
Reading the edition of January 9th of "O
Liberal", in the column "Voz do Leitor” - under
the main title "Vez do Leitor" I had the thankful satisfaction
of tasting the entitled matters, “The Internationalization
Of Amazonia", by Benedito Wilson Sá, member of the
Paraense Academy of Letters - Belém; "Latin-American
Panorama", by Jarbas Passarinho, former-governor of Pará,
former-senator and former-minister of the Work, of the Education,
of the Precaution and of the Justice; “Everybody Wants The
Amazonia! ", by Hugo Antônio Ferrari - Óbidos
- Pará and "Amazonia: From The Deforestation To The
Maintainable Exploration", by Marcus Barros, president of
Ibama - Brasilia.
Then, I took for base that the matters published in the
site Acorda Pará - www.acordapara.com.br
-, which doesn't possess economical purposes; they are
not constituted accusation in vain. The Acorda Pará,
opportunely, receives readers' of countries visits as:
United States, Sweden, Portugal, Japan, France, Poland,
Canada, Germany, Australia, England, Switzerland, Argentina,
Spain, Norway, Panama, Costa Rica, Austria, European Union,
Belgium and Brazil, and, that it reaches place of international
prominence when having matters published in the United
States through the site PlanetSave www.planetsave.com
- Independent News. The alert had already been made! We
know that our authorities fake to ignore, or to ignore
on the published accusations, but they have substantial
knowledge of what happens in our territory, as it is exemplified
in the texts published in the edition.
In the reality, the journalism team of Acorda Pará has
yes, of truth, it determined and shouted so that the constituted
authorities, at least in the State of Pará, they began
a process so that we can save the Amazonia of the alien adventurers
(several companies of mineral and vegetable extraction based in
the State) that are to devastate one of the last refuges of the
nature in the reality. Most of the time without paying the necessary
taxes to our treasury will benefit other States. And our population
how it is? But, it is as well he adduces in his matter Benedito
Wilson of Sá "... places where community use boats
and canoes as only means of transportation could simply be traveled
walking or by bicycle. Great boats were arrested in the dry mud
- that is the bed of the rivers: thousands of dead fish attracted
vultures, transforming the landscape in a great cemetery to open
sky; cities and communities completely dependent of the rivers
they were totally isolated, suffering with the lack of medicines,
fuel, drinking water and food"; only that statement typifies
what we can observe in Paraense Amazonia. And to who it does interest
so much poverty, to the Brazilian political noblemen or foreign
groups that "finance the country?"
Besides, we cannot allow that a group of few,
but very few entrepreneurs, benefit of such products and raw materials
only for us to show the lust, without, however, to corroborate
with a possible minimum for the enlargement of our State. And,
without any guilty conscience, to leave as inheritance to the
atrocities perpetrated against the nature for our future generation.
The nature that was always a lot of prodigal in this extensive
strip of the paraense territory it begins to give exhaustion sign,
due to the predatory exploration of the natural resources along
the time.
He said Victor Hugo once; "First it was necessary to civilize
the man in relation to the own man. Now it is necessary to civilize
the man in relation to the nature and to the animals". And
our hymn what the one says? "Save, the earth of gigantic
rivers, of the Amazonian - Princess, everything in you is vibrant
charm, from the industry to the pagan rudeness", and, Hugo
Ferrari affirms in his matter: Everybody wants the Amazonia! For
the indifference with that our authorities treat the Amazonia,
it is more who wants her! All know - and it is not today - that
countries with "fat eyes" exist in the largest reservation
of biodiversity of the planet. To Brazil, that wealth seems not
to represent anything due to the impressive devastation that the
forest has been suffering for following years. The government,
unhappily, it has been proving not to be capable to preserve the
Amazonia as it would owe, in order to avoid that the worst of
all of the predators - the own man - destroys that true shrine
once and for all. Nobody respects any more our environmental laws!
To each aggression that the Amazonia suffers, it is less life
- not only in Brazil, but in the rest of the world, also, because
it affects the ecosystem as a completely.
When we speak about the Amazonia, we are whole careful, when we
mentioned and we affirmed as accusation what happens around here,
besides some actions "sub-judice", because, if we don't
do it, they will still proclaim our matters as dubious or even
apology. We see that it is done urgent and necessary the creation
of a politics that comes to encounter not only to the interest
of the Nation, of the State or of each Municipal district, but,
that has in its salience a reality of minimizing the suffered
problems for all of the paraenses as to respect to the preservation
of the middle-atmosphere, and that that really crosses the borders
of the paper or of the media and that it comes to be executed
with truth, since we live and we need the soil where we live.
We should not forget that the true reason of maintaining the environment
ecologically balanced is the own man, the human being.
We owe yes; to be concerned with the future of the area, mainly
in what concerns the interior of the forest. The Government needs
in the reality to allocate human resources and financial for basic
activities, that space from the fiscalization to the limitation
of the forest and research projects and rational exploration.
Since the few families that inhabit the area stay attentive against
the invader, but without voice nor time, and little, very little
they can do, therefore they only possess right to vote for in
the urns of the elections.
The silence of the forests and rivers denounce the invaders with
the noises of the motors of the pushers (small embarkation with
great propulsion) that push rafts with hundreds of cubic meters
of logs of noble wood from the area, or who does know that noise
of the motorcycle demolishing part of our forests without, however,
the noise arriving at the ears of the closest authorities in the
occasion of the aggression to our flora.
When we listen the cantata of the hymn of Pará, what an
emotion! But something emotion? If we return a little in the time,
when of the composition of Arthur Porto's verses, "Save,
the earth of rich forests, fecundated in the sun of Ecuador, your
destiny is to live among parties, of the progress, of Peace and
of the Love", we are sure that, when of the creation, the
word "Saves" that is perpetuated, it was written as
a greeting expression, today, however, who knows the verb to save
- literally - it has been a vision of the author, crying to the
time, for us to Save the Amazonia from the "crapulence"
installed under the beards of our authorities municipal, state
and federal.
Then, the authors of the matters published excuse me, but I ask
without guilty conscience: will we have although to believe so
in the letter of our hymn, or will we have to do and to see the
ending that the same proclaims... "Oh Pará, as it
makes me proud to be son, of such a beautiful and strong colossus,
of your flowers rail, of Brazil - Sentry of the North. And to
leave of maintaining that shine, did we prefer a thousand times,
the death! ". Will it be that we will have to accomplish
the statement of our hymn, or will we have to perish without oxygen,
because it was already proven scientifically that areas now arid
they already sheltered a rich vegetation and biodiversity in the
past?
Why not to look with professionalism all the situation as it comes.
The gradual temperature change that happens in Pará, or
who knows the shortage of the fluvial waters, as it already happened
last year. Oh it is the question. Will we be the next deserts
of the world? The fear is very big. The threat reaches all. The
reality is more and more close. Until the governments and the
society recognize that in the vast and rich Amazonian universe,
as in any other point of the planet, the nature is the most important
element. It remains to preserve the Amazonia. Because, she will
always continue being necessary. The lung of the world!
For not prolonging me a lot in the text, and so that the population
not only paraense, but the northerner, and maybe the Brazilian
in a whole, become aware of what happens in our area is that matters
published without any previous censorship, or commercial ends,
but with all ethical peculiar to our attitudes in the site Acorda
Pará. Then Live the Amazonia!
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