20 ideias para girar o mundo -- Ailton Krenak

AUTODIDACT ENVIRONMENTALIST INDIGENOUS TRIBAL LEADER FOUNDER OF THE INDIGENOUS CULTURE CORE HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES CATEGORY NETWORK COORDINATOR OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FOREST 30 years ago i went to visit some people that live in the forest, the Yanom�mi. They lived isolated from the world, they didn't know about the existence of this global world which we know. They believed they were the only people that lived in the planet.

Maybe there were one or two indians still hiding in the forest, but they believed they were the people of the land. They are children of"Omam" who is the creator of the world creator of the Earth. And a friend of mine who was starting to talk with people from out of his world asked me: Is it true that there are many people out there?

Many people in the world,are there many people, many white? I talked to him: yes, in the world there are many, many many white. Then he said: but are they so many?

I said:they are many they are like the stars of the sky, like the ants in the whole forest. And one day they will get here. Then he got scared and thus talked to me: But are they so many like this?

I said: they are. He said: how do they get food for everyone? Then i told him about all the artifices that the world used to feed themselves.

After that he asked: where they put all their waste? These two questions that have been made to me about how we feed the humanity and where the humanity throw its waste, to me were the two more intelligent questions that i ever heard because these questions the humanity had to ask itself. How does an indigenous tribe that always lived in the forest and that had no contact with all this production of knowledge out here kept in its heart the profund feeling that the Earth has a limit?

And this understanding that the Earth has a limit, guides these people, for example regarding the occupation they do of the spaces inside the forest. Do not have too many people in the same area of the forest because the forest becomes ill. So the people distribute itself in a balanced way inside the forest, they move in these spaces in a cerimonial manner, reverently nobody runs over the forest to make their survival there.

The Earth is our mother. It is a poetic expression that anyone agree with it, but there are many people renting the mother selling the mother slashing the mother taking a mountain from here the reserve . .

. the biosphere from the "Serra do Espinha�o" to put it in the containers and ship it on a vessel to be consumed in other markets. This plunder of the landscape the withdrawal of the resources of nature, it needs to be balanced.

What inspires me most in insist on the idea of human beings be involved in his life here on Earth is that one commandment of indigenous thought that says: we must walk here on Earth stepping on softly like a bird that flies through the sky and afterwards you look and there is no trace of it. If humans leave a trail on Earth he is not sustainable. How can we change the place where we live which in this case is Brazil and the world more sustainable?

This is a question which is as if it was embedded one within another. It's that idea of you being able to act in the place where you live, being able to think where you are in te world, in the planet act locally think globally. So it's hard for most people to be able to maintain this awareness that what we do here in the place where we are impacts the rest of the planet where we live.

But we need to walk the new generations need to follow this trail and learn to do this exercise. We can no longer imagine that we live alone. There are no more possibilities of a tribe of a civilization, of a people living alone.

We are all hopelessly linked, so the involvement of human communities in the planet is a urgent necessity, because thats the only way we will share the zeal by this common house which is the planet Earth.