The cataclysm environmental, social and human that befell the three mountain counties of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Teresopolis and Nova Friburgo, in the second week of January, with hundreds of deaths, destruction of entire regions and an immeasurable suffering of those who lost family, homes and all their possessions as has most immediate cause torrential rains, typical of summer, the geophysical setting of mountains, with little ground cover that grows on the lush subtropical forest, sitting on huge flat rocks that because of infiltration weight of water and vegetation often trigger deadly mudslides.
They blamed people who occupied areas of risk, to criminalize corrupt politicians who destribuíram hazardous terrain and poor, it criticizes the government which was lenient and did not do prevention work, because they are not visible and not voters. In all this there is much truth. But it is not the main cause of this tragedy overwhelming.
The root cause stems from the way as we treat nature. She is generous to us because we offer everything you need to live. But we, however, regard this as a trinket, delivered to our pleasure, without any sense of responsibility for its preservation or give it some consideration. Instead, we treat it with violence, depredamo it, tearing it all we can for our benefit. And yet turned it into a huge trash from our waste.
Worse, we do not know its nature and its history. We are illiterate and ignorant of history that took place in our places on the course of thousands and thousands of years. We do not care to know the flora and fauna, mountains, rivers, landscapes, significant people who lived there, artists, poets, rulers, scholars and builders.
We are, in large part, borrowers still the modern scientific spirit that identifies reality with their purely material and mechanistic aspects without including her, life, consciousness and intimate communion with the things that poets, musicians and artists for the recall in its magnificent work. The universe and nature have a history. She is being told by the stars, the Earth, the outcrop and elevation of the mountains, animals, forests and rivers. Our task is to learn to listen and interpret the messages they send us. The native peoples knew capture every movement of clouds, the direction of the winds and they knew when they came or not Waterspouts. Chico Mendes who took part in long penetrations of Acre in the Amazon rainforest could interpret every sound of the jungle, to read signs of the passage of ounces in the ground and leaves, with the ear to the ground, I knew what direction would the herd of hazardous
wild pigs. We unlearn all that. With the use of science we read the history recorded in layers of each being. But that knowledge did not come into school curricula or turned into general culture. Before he turned to master the technical nature and accumulate.
In the case of mountain towns: there are naturally heavy rains in summer. Where landslides occur slopes. We know that already installed the global warming that makes the extreme events more frequent and more dense. We know the deep valleys and streams that run them. But do not listen to the message they send us is: do not build houses on the slopes, do not live near the river and the riparian preserve zealously. The river has two beds: one normal, minor, through which flow the waters and a larger one that gives rise to the great waters of the torrential rains. In this part you can not build and live.
We are paying high price for our neglect and for the decimation of the Atlantic that balanced the rains. What is needed now is to listen to nature and do preventive work that respects the mode of being of every hill, every valley, every river.
Only control nature in that we listen and obey him your messages and read their signals. Otherwise we must rely on fatal preventable tragedies.
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"The care to save life,
do justice to the impoverished
and redeem the earth as
Homeland and Matra of all. "
(Leonardo Boff)
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