Correspondent Sylvia Colombo, from Buenos Aires (ARG), toasted readers of sheet with poetic information: Gabriel Boric, 36, the new president of Chile, is living in a house on Calle Huérfanos, between Libertad and Esperanza. He made me think of Brazil.
Jair Bolsonaro, 66, will leave the Presidency of the Republic at 67 (or not). It leaves hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 orphans, freedom threatened by the military, police and militia shadow over the elections, and hope garroted by downtown ranchers voting in a herd to pass the Salles herd.
While Arthur Lira (PP-AL) revealed in the Chamber his urgency for the bill 191, with the purpose of raping indigenous lands under the vile pretext of the war in Ukraine, thousands took to the Esplanade to dance. Intoxicated with post-pandemic freedom and hoping to stop the environmental disaster.
There are not few. According to the opinion poll Climate Change in the Perception of Brazilians: 96% of Brazilians declare that they believe that global warming is a fact, and 77% attribute it to human action.
Not even for Covid vaccination is there such dominant support in a matter of survival. And look at how the coronavirus has been a present and widespread threat, while the climate crisis is still perceived as a future danger, which can be fought and mitigated – in the worst case, prepare for the impact.
Unanimity is not always based on correct and objective notions. Evidence abounds that superficial adherence to popular causes is as quick and easy as it is manipulative and inconsequential — the bloodthirsty mythology of Ukrainian heroism is there for anyone to spread fake news alone.
Showing blue and yellow flags on your lapel or car window costs as much as displaying green and yellow flags. Much less than getting in line with SUVs to fill up with gas at a high speed and hating Vladimir Putin for making fossil fuel more expensive that has its days numbered.
We will all pay more and more for insisting on dependence on hydrocarbons formed millions of years ago. Everyone worries about Petrobras’ health because of the interference in prices, today, but with the net and certain stranding of the pre-salt patrimony, tomorrow, nobody seems to care.
Just to remind you: in order to stop the global warming that virtually everyone believes in by 1.5º C, as stipulated in the Paris Agreement (2015), it is necessary to cut carbon emissions by almost half in less than a decade. And zero it in the next 20 years. Bye, gasoline!
Toss the first Molotov cocktail to anyone who believes this could happen, with or without Putin and Zelensky. From the point of view of the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect, it does not matter whether Russian natural gas flows to Western Europe or China.
From the perspective of the future, it does not matter whether 25% or 30% of Brazilians put Bolsonaro in the second round out of fear of Lula, gender ideology or the scarecrow of corruption. Most of them say they believe in global warming and that it is human work, but they don’t care about one thing with the other.
I was thrilled with the crowd that went to the show in front of Congress, Wednesday (9). I was surprised by the rhetoric shouted in the initial speeches of progressive leaders, it is true, but I was relieved when I rationalized that it must be because we all feel orphans, at this time, of freedom and hope.
Scream then. Who knows, someone listens.
