WORLD WORLDWIDE BRAZIL News Journal Update - (en) Brazil, FAG: The global climate tragedy: MAY THE RICH, AGRIBUSINESSES AND TRANSNATIONALS PAY THE BILL. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 "Unlimited evolution is what breaks the dam Taking everything that

exists In the force of the current Where Uncle Sam makes his guess There
is no bread left on the table Because no people can resist The death of
nature" ---- Excerpt from the song " Desde os temps de Sepé" by Pedro
Ortaça.* ---- It is not new that we are alerted to the climate
catastrophe that the neoliberal system applies with harsh blows of
spoliation to the entire Environment. The environmental debate, which
was subject to a lot of political analysis, little commitment and was
minimized for a long time, is now gaining urgency. Around the world,
warnings are being raised about rising temperatures in the northern
hemisphere, a place where the global temperature is regulated with
importance. Large fires, strong heat waves, and floods across almost the
entire globe have become more serious and more frequent. It is also not
new that the exploitation and domination of nature models have been
denounced with great resistance throughout Latin America. From
colonialism to more current economic projects, the methods continue to
aim at the profits of elites, business sectors, large corporations to
the detriment of human life and the entire eco system that we are
included in. The environmental plunder applied by neoliberalism for
decades, in the most varied parts of the planet, brings with it marks of
misfortune and harmful transformations in the ability to live with a
minimum of dignity, especially for the poorest.
Devastating Nature, deepening poverty, decimating populations and their
cultures is a constitutive part of the modus operandi of financial
capitalism. And, the great global agreements, managed in the governance
summits of the great powers on climate and the environment, are very far
from the planet's ecological and human emergencies, in practice they are
not fulfilled and those who suffer the most severe consequences are
nature and the most oppressed populations in the world. Environmental
devastation is managed by a literal project of death.

The so-called "transition to Green Development", green is only in name,
and "development" is for the few.

Generally speaking, this new climate agenda only realigns the capacity
of industrial blocs and large transnational companies to continue
exploring the Environment, with a more environmentally friendly facade.
In practice, we know that there is no political-economic interest in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere, there is
no interest or desire to seek to reverse or at most balance the
environmental damage on the planet. The warning shot of scientific
studies on global warming have already been ignored several times by
world powers, as if that were not enough, "scientific" studies
fraudulent by collaborators of Nature's exploitation models come into
play to legitimize their culture of destruction. They plant
misinformation, relativize climate consequences and consequently
encourage harmful denialism. They try to offset environmental impacts
and damage with fallacies of social development, work and quality of
life. And what we have in fact is the absolute opposite of these statements.
For decades they imposed on the social imagination a lifestyle of
"having" to "being". They made visible and destroyed original forms of
life to implement the rule of voracious consumerism. If you don't
consume a certain lifestyle, it is outside the standards considered normal.

However, the popular struggle in Latin America against this project of
plunder and death has always been alive and well. From Central America
to Tierra del Fuego there were and are revolts, direct actions and
mobilizations to denounce and resist the advance of neo-liberalism and
its consequences. The complaint against the IIRSA Plan was a great
example, struggles involving large groups and more localized struggles,
all important and necessary. IIRSA, after 20 years of operation,
irreversible impacts and much exploration in areas of environmental
importance, managed to build paths that facilitate the removal of
natural assets. It is true that it lost strength and was unable to
consolidate its entire package. However, we are facing a new adaptation
of its same policy, due to the new global geopolitical configuration,
which is focused on our continent, as is the case of China and its
economic initiatives, both in Brazil and in other countries in America.
Latin.

In Brazil, for example, Agribusiness is one of the fundamental pillars
for the destruction, from north to south, of our eco system.
Transnational corporations, with their massive export of natural goods
and their spread across different territories, have also played, in
recent decades, the role of plundering and preying on our Environment,
destroying original and traditional communities, all of this supported
by the policies that allowed and facilitated their installations and
operation.  And here it is necessary to highlight that the current
governments are indifferent.
The large fires in the north of the country, the socio-environmental
scourge of mining companies, deforestation, diversion of river courses,
construction of large dams, the green desert of eucalyptus and soybeans
in the Pampa Biome (one of the most devastated Biomes we have) were the
rule constant effort to quench the thirst for profit of these sectors
that control the territory of our country. It is also true that, not
without resistance from Indigenous communities, quilombolas and rural
social movements. The fight for environmental issues has always been
strong in these sectors, due to the direct impact of Agribusiness
policies and transnational companies.

The most current agenda that goes hand in hand with 'resisting to
survive' is the fight against the "Temporal Framework". The subjects of
this struggle are our original peoples, who for centuries have made
their lives available to defend the preservation of nature and our main
biomes. The Temporal Milestone is the continuity of the struggle between
the customs of 'good living' originating against the colonial
inheritance on our lands. It is no surprise that Brazil is one of the
countries that kills the most environmentalists in the world, any voice
that rises against this environmental massacre, according to the logic
of the State, needs to be silenced. It is also necessary to continue
denouncing and demanding measures to stop the indigenous genocide, which
is very serious in Brazil.
Now, the situation spills over drastically into impacts on cities, large
and small, which have not built life and growth projects in balance with
the Environment. That is why it is essential to quickly rethink the city
models we have, and the ways to face situations of environmental scourge
so that no more lives are lost due to lack of warning or immediate
assistance.

Everything is interconnected and the climate issue needs to gain even
more prominence and priority on our different action fronts.

In Rio Grande do Sul, a few days ago we experienced an environmental
tragedy where lives were lost and thousands of people lost their homes,
the overwhelming impact of floods and storms left paths of great
sadness, despair and abandonment. There were many cities, rural and
riverside locations that suffered the major impacts of yet another
cyclone. The most emblematic case certainly points to the northwest
region of the state, more precisely to the Taquari Valley, where cities
were literally swallowed by the force of the waters. Dozens of lives
lost, homes destroyed, an impactful scenario. We need to be alert and
demand investigations into the possible lack of evacuation alerts that
could prevent the deaths that occurred. Insist on the transparency of
monitoring mechanisms for dams that operate on rivers that overflow into
cities. If the meteorological warnings about the amount of rain in that
region were already published, why didn't they trigger a plan to
immediately evacuate people from those cities?

Only the people save the people.

Here, it is important to highlight that solidarity from those below is
an immediate example, mainly from the MST, which in a few hours after
the tragedy installed a support network to help the families in that
location. Solidarity that is more than written words and that does not
need authorization from the state bureaucracy to happen. Pay attention
to other groups, organized or not, that were also important in this
chain of solidarity. Our admiration also for the courage of the
residents themselves, who in the midst of despair fought, risking their
lives, to not leave their family and neighbors without help. And, they
are now resigned to the task of rebuilding themselves in the midst of so
much pain and loss. May they never lack the beautiful gesture of
solidarity among those from Below.
 From now on, it is of fundamental importance that we are articulated
and have an action mechanism for situations like these, articulating
popular support committees for environmental catastrophes. Pressure
governments for an effective warning and relief plan for all times of
possible disasters. Denounce the agents of the disasters, the slowness
of warnings to the population and, above all, demand, through the force
of popular struggle, that the rich and the looting elite pay the bill.
It is unacceptable for them to go flat and leave the responsibility for
restructuring empty-handed to those below.

The oppressed peoples of the world do not deserve another day of the
filth of the capitalist system that devastates people and our environment.

Gaúcha Anarchist Federation / CAB

https://cabanarquista.org/a-tragedia-climatica-mundial-que-os-ricos-agronegocio-e-transnacionais-paguem-a-conta/

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