One of lime ... Chico Buarque
STATEMENTS OF EDUCATION MINISTER OF BRAZIL.
During a discussion at a U.S. university,
he asked the former governor of the Federal District and current Minister of Education
Brazil, CRISTOVÃO Chico Buarque
, what he thought about the internationalization of Amazonia
. A United Nations U.S.
introduced his question, saying he hoped the response of a humanist
and not a Brazilian.
This was the response from Mr Cristóvão Buarque:
really, as a Brazilian, only speak against the internationalization
Amazonia. For more than
our governments do not properly care for that heritage,
it is ours.
As a humanist, feeling the risk of environmental degradation suffers
Amazon
I can imagine its internationalization, as well as everything else, that
is very important for humanity.
If the Amazon, from a humanist ethics, must be
internationalized
also internationalize the oil reserves in the world.
Oil is so important to the welfare of humanity as the Amazon
for our future.
Despite that, the owners of stocks they believe have
the right to increase or decrease the production of oil and its price up or not.
Similarly, the financial capital
rich countries should be internationalized. If the Amazon is a
reserve for all human beings, not be burned
only by the will of an owner or a country.
burn the Amazon is as serious as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions
global speculators.
We can not allow
financial reserves serve to burn entire countries in the luxury of speculation.
Also, before Amazon, I would
see the internationalization of the great museums of the world.
The Louvre should not belong only to France.
Every museum in the world is the guardian of the most beautiful
produced by human genius. You can not let that
cultural heritage, natural heritage as Amazon
be manipulated and destroyed for the pleasure of an owner or a country.
Not long ago, a Japanese millionaire decided
buried along with him, a picture of a great teacher.
By contrast, this picture would have been
internationalized.
During this meeting, the UN is doing
Millennium Forum,
but some presidents had difficulties participating countries because
unpleasant situations encountered in the U.S. border
So I think that New York, to host the
United Nations, must be internationalized.
At least Manhattan should belong to all mankind.
In the same way as Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de
Janeiro, Brasilia ... each city, with its specific
beauty, history of the world should belong to the world.
If the U.S. wants to internationalize the Amazon, in order not to risk
left to the
Brazilian
internationalize all the nuclear arsenals. Just think they already showed they were
able to use those weapons, causing destruction
thousands of times greater than the unfortunate
fires burning in the forests of Brazil.
In their speeches, the current presidential candidates
United States have defended the idea of \u200b\u200binternationalizing
world forest reserves in exchange for debt.
Let's start using this debt to ensure that every child
the world has the chance to eat and go to school
. Internationalize the children treating them
all no matter what country they were born, as
heritage deserve care worldwide. Much more
what is worth the Amazon. When leaders
treat poor children of the world as a World Heritage Site
not work when they should allow
study, they die when they should live.
As a humanist, I accept to defend the internationalization
the world, but while the world treats me as a Brazilian,
fight for the Amazon is ours.
Only ours!
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