{"id":33566,"date":"2021-09-23T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=33566"},"modified":"2021-09-28T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:11:33","slug":"the-climate-crisis-has-been-foretold-by-native-peoples-from-the-outset-says-ailton-krenak","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/the-climate-crisis-has-been-foretold-by-native-peoples-from-the-outset-says-ailton-krenak\/","title":"\u201cThe climate crisis has been foretold by native peoples from the outset,\u201d says Ailton Krenak","content":"

\u201cThe relationship that resulted in the climate crisis has been foretold by native peoples from the outset,\u201d says Ailton Krenak, a writer, researcher, environmentalist and indigenous leader. According to him, \u201cit is a sensitive intelligence to understand that there are things that need to be stabilized in the Earth\u2019s organism. Colonialism does not recognize natural borders, it invades everything furiously\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Faced with the climate emergency, one of today\u2019s most prominent indigenous leaders exposes how predatory forest practices affect native peoples. He considers this environmental racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the week of Global Climate Mobilization, Conectas is publishing an interview with Ailton Krenak for the recently launched e-book \u201cClimate and Human Rights \u2013 Voices and Actions\u201d (<\/span>available in Portuguese at this link<\/a><\/strong>), produced by the organization with the support of the Climate and Society Institute.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Read the interview: <\/h2>\n

Conectas \u2013 Is there a relationship between colonialism and the climate crisis?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ailton Krenak \u2013<\/b> This relationship results from a way of looking at the world in which the human being is the measure of all things. Colonial thinking is powerful because it uses instruments such as economics, which globally institutes the possession of things and land. It is associated with the appropriation of technologies that accelerate extractivism in ecosystems, oceans, mountains and deserts. In the 20th century, we became capable of wrecking the entire planet. <\/span><\/p>\n

Conectas \u2013 How is the climate crisis viewed by your people?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ailton Krenak \u2013 <\/b>The relationship that resulted in the climate crisis has been foretold by native peoples from the outset. It is in the letter attributed to Chief Seattle [Anglicization of Si\u2019ahl, leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples who lived during the late 18th and early 19th centuries], the basis of the environmental movement. He told the government of the United States: \u201cEverything here is alive, the deer, the morning breeze, the grass, the mountain. You want to buy this land that is sacred to us. Do you not understand that you will die and be buried in it?\u201d. It is a prophecy, which states: \u201cIf you don\u2019t walk carefully, one day you\u2019ll wake up immersed in your own vomit.\u201d In \u201cA Queda do C\u00e9u\u201d [<\/span>The Falling Sky<\/span><\/i>, published by Companhia das Letras, 2015], Davi Kopenawa says that the epidemic we are experiencing was foretold by what the Yanomami tribe calls Xawara, which occurs when gold is taken from the earth and comes into contact with the atmosphere, turning into poison and making people and the forest sick. It is a sensitive intelligence to understand that there are things that need to be stabilized in the Earth\u2019s organism. Colonialism does not recognize natural borders, it invades everything furiously. <\/span><\/p>\n

Conectas \u2013 Is the term \u201cenvironmental racism\u201d useful to refer to the exclusionary idea of humanity that you address in your work? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ailton Krenak \u2013<\/b> Ten or 15 years ago, smarter Brazilians were excited about the fact that Brazil was starting to extract oil from an offshore platform. The communities along the way were disregarded. I\u2019m on the banks of the Doce River, which was turned into a sea of mud by the extractivism of [mining company] Vale. Indigenous peoples have suffered from the invasion of their world by chaotic, predatory practices. The man outside the forest, who eats hamburgers in Europe, needs it dead. This is environmental racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conectas \u2013 Why do you criticize the idea of \u201csustainable development\u201d?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ailton Krenak \u2013 <\/b>It\u2019s a fabricated narrative announced after the realization, in 1976, that we were on an uncontrollable course towards climate change. Even when something is manufactured with all the controls, it requires materials that are not replaced in nature. How can you produce something sustainable if the extractive system is sovereign and changes the cycles of life on Earth? Sustainability is a certificate sold to fools that will last for as long as there are people buying it. There is a water truck that travels 200 km, gets water from another basin and brings it to the village because the Doce River basin is tainted. If you ask, the sustainability manager will say that the water is sustainable because it has a license, it follows a protocol. It\u2019s just an analysis tool of an impenetrable system. For the people on the outside, believing this is a lack of intelligence, a lack of courage to think. It would be better if we called it the sustainability of the end. Everyone knows we\u2019re already over the edge. <\/span><\/p>\n

Conectas \u2013 Can the justice system be used to deal with environmental and social issues?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ailton Krenak \u2013<\/b> The justice system will increasingly be used by humans to protect themselves in the sustainability of the end. But not by other beings. Humans only talk about human rights, and environmental law is anthropocentric, it has no interest in whether the forest will die, the river will be polluted. I have to admit I\u2019m fed up. We have so many rights that we call the world a disgrace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read also the interview with Nego Bispo, published in the e-book \u201cClimate and Human Rights \u2013 Voices and Actions\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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