WEBSÉRIE | Para Quem Sopram os Ventos? | - Ep06

The impression I had about the towers is curious, before, when you'd see them from afar, it was a beautiful sea of flowers. But when you get closer and you see the problems, the impacts they provoke, you see what happens to those who live beside them and the problems they bring, it's shocking. And this images impressed me a lot, Mr Simão, at dawn, in his dried corn plantation, and the tower shade projected over everything.

My message is,"stop living things from afar, get closer, you'll change your mind completely, you just have to get close to them. " WHO DOES THE WIND BLOW TO ANOTHER FUTURE IS POSSIBLE When we look closer, we see so many contradictions. "Clean Energy" How can we call it clean energy, when they use raw materials such as Lithium, Cobalt?

Mining causes a great impact on the environment. And great part of the sites where these metals are extracted from, like The Democratic Republic of Congo, portray violence. Are we seeking a truly sustainable society?

Or are we just avoiding to face the problems caused by the capitalist logic of production? What's behind the discourse that we've found a source of "clean energy"? The reality we saw is, broken families, torn-apart families, by something that should be good.

I saw it is not good. I used to have an opinion about the eolian energy and today, I can't see it as something really positive at all. So, there's a very big omission concerning the impacts such undertakings have brought.

There's an urgent need for the government to supervise such facilities and propose new legislation adjustments, so that such undertakings won't bring so many problems as they have brought. The speed in installing them, I mean the dizzying growth, in the last 15 years, of such facilities, has brought huge problems We hope that along this articulation process, of showing what this means in these people's life, the companies as well as the public policies can dialogue, in the perspective of what the community is like, lives like, and many times, is not respected by the impact of mega projects and investments. We have several problems, but four of them, we need to attack.

The contracts cannot be long-termed. It's necessary to guarantee, free from any fines, the possibility of gathering and discussing the contracts again with the farmers. They have to extinguish the secrecy clause.

The contracts should be made public among the farmers and among the peasant entities, so that they can assume the mediation about the land income. They need to link the payment to the income obtained by the generation of electricity per installed air-generator. We understand that the average, for discussion, should be around four to five percent.

Finally, it's necessary to guarantee extra compensation for lost profits from the land that will be unusable, the farmer won't exploit it. If we look at other countries' laws, you'll see countries that don't permit a tower, closer than 3 km from a house, others, not closer than 2 km, others, at least 500 meters. What we have observed in more serious studies, is that a tower shouldn't be closer than 2 km from the houses.

Thinking of environment, for instance, we need to understand what the impacts are for the fauna groups in the area. In most of these studies, most of these undertakings, it's not discussed which species will collide against these structures, and mainly, which mitigating measures will be used. In other countries, there are already models of solar plants and wind farms for the community, which means that the community gets together and searches for a loan, just like BNDS does for big companies, but it could be a credit line for even rural communities so that this community would buy equipment from these companies and go through the whole installation process.

And then, they would negotiate it straight in the energy stock market, and doing so, they'd have profits to reverse into the community quality of life itself, and also into income generation for this community. This already exists. It already happens in Spain.

it also happens in Germany, in Denmark, and it was very likely to happen here in our region. If this decentralized production was financed by the State, for the peasants, would generate energy, autonomy, and also income for the communities. Besides, the communities would even distribute it to the energy dealers.

This is a way to guarantee dignified life in the countryside, a way to not heat the planet, so that we can accomplish our task that is not to deforest. What kind of "Clean Energy" is this, that generates waste? It's weird, isn't it?

It should be recyclable. This is even a proposal, for the local populations to start thinking about cooperatives for recycling this material. Getting ahead of it, because we'll have this sort of waste.

We'll have to deal with it. The planet can't handle any more waste. Would it not be the case of rethinking }ways of life closer to the settled people, the quilombolas, the fishermen, the mariculturists?

They have large knowledge, they draw water from stone. They do things out of very little. which is something we'll take long to learn.

There are people and communities who are already doing this and they do it with expertise and very well. Ms Margarida managed to do this out of the nothing, far from many things, far from the town, far from any hydrous resources, she managed to have a green plantation, very pretty, out of her strength alone. For me this was one of the most beautiful things I saw there.

It's a lot, but I can get entertained, right? There's passion fruit over there. and this is how I keep going.

Some days, I feel like leaving, but I can't leave my plants behind. Why not rethinking consumption? Why do we need energy so much?

What for? And to whom?