WEBSÉRIE | Para Quem Sopram os Ventos? | - Ep04

My message is don't look at how much they're offering. They are misleading you. Look at the nature.

Look at the natural beauty of our ecosystem. Notice we have life quality and health. Because our nature is very pretty and rich, and of spectacular value.

WHO DOES THE WIND BLOW TO? WHAT ARE WE GOING TO EAT IN THE FUTURE? Look at the queen bee!

If you've never seen one! Look at the queen bee here. It's hidden!

Our plants, in the ecosystem, need pollination, more bees without sting, right? They have fundamental importance in the world. Without pollination, there will be no seeds nor fruit.

The plants need pollination to develop well. If we accept a power plant here, it'll make our ecosystem suffer irreparable damages. Bonito has a mosaic of preserved woods that plays a strategic role from the stand point of biodiversity, as well as the Atlantic Forest preservation itself, in its fauna and its fauna because the Atlantic Forest is one of the most assaulted biomas and has a strategic hydrous positioning because we produce a lot of water, here.

We, one of the biggest yam producers in the north and northeast produce around 3. 5 million tons of yam besides banana-land, silver banana and other greens. This all makes our income way bigger compared to what they are offering us.

So, we need to analyze this. Our community won't have any benefits, just losses. If we consider that Brazil is back to famine map, that we're undergoing an important food crisis, with 19 million people starving daily, with half the population under food insecurity situation, this makes us understand the importance of these towns that also produce food to hold back this crisis so that we can provide not only to local market, but also regional and other state markets.

I'm a son of the meadows, a rough-hand singer, I work on the fields From winter to drought My hut holes are filled with clay I roll my cigarettes in corn husk I'm a far land poet I don't play the role or some minstrel who wanders with his viola singing passion looking for love I don't have knowledge, never studied I can just sign my name Poor dad, had no coins And the poor man's son, cannot study my short verses, simple and muzzy won't enter the squares, the rich rooms my verses just go into poor straw huts from mountains to the dry lands. Patativa do Assaré Agroecology stands itself as opposed to these impacts caused by the companies that are usually forced down the throat. I hope they are more expressive about what they want to install and they have dialogues with society.

Concerning the impacts, they can be social as well as environmental. The hardest social impacts on these populations, the native populations, the quilombolas, indigenous, family farmers, fishermen, concerns the land, right. I mean, the land used for food, so far, for minor production, for producing healthy food, has been taken to produce energy.

There's a conflict between producing energy versus producing food. The present leases of rural settlements, either Incra's or land credit's, end up turning into land privatization because the power farms are fenced, with security guard and people cannot go inside the farm territory, although the discourse doesn't say they no longer can plant or raise animals. that's what actually happens.

Then we wonder what are we going to eat in the future? Solar panels? Eolian towers?

This could be bypassed if there was a zoning. I mean, that certain regions were destined to producing energy, and others to producing food. Just a matter of zoning.

A settlement like this one, that values the production, the agroecology, doesn't even benefit from this electricity that is generated here in the site. And there's this difficult access to water. So we notice some contradictions.

The issues brought to the debate about the impacts above all, should respect these communities, should respect these people's way of life. should see these people have been there for decades. They built their families there and the noise, the way they come to them, the way they give them many possibilities which, when implemented, are far from being what actually happens there.