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BRASIL-SUÉCIA Nummer 401 den 16 februari 2023, årgång 27
Redaktör: Lennart Kjörling
Om kultur, politik och sociala frågor, i Brasilien, Sverige, Afrika, ja hela världen
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Krutröken skingrar sig i Brasilien och det finns ett antal möjliga processer mot Bolsonaro som fortfarande gömmer sig i Florida. Nu börjar nästa kamp, för att få Brasilien på fötter igen.
Jag får rapporter från Salvador att barnen vill tillbaka till skolan, efter några år av kaos är det viktigt, tre förlorade år.
Lulas kamp handlar just nu om att få fart på ekonomin. Den brasilianska centralbanken är fristående, en nyliberal tanke som genomförts i många länder. Styrräntan ligger på 13,75 procent, vilket är ett allvarligt hinder för att få fart på ekonomin, vem vågar investera? Lula och finansminister Haddad är på krigsfot och kräver sänkningar. Nu sprids ett folkligt upprop till stöd för dem, något en stor del av befolkningen stöder.
Det har redan gnisslat mellan Lula och finanskapitalet, det ambitiösa sociala projekt han lyft fram har gjort finansmarknaden nervös och realen har sjunkit i värde. Att få fart på ekonomin är en av Lulas stora utmaningar.
KLIMATUTMANINGAR
MST håller på att bygga upp ett internationellt samarbete kring klimatet och miljön. Här är några av de förslag João Pedro Stédile lyft fram:
1. Prohibiting deforestation and commercial burning in all native forests and savannas across the world.
2. Prohibiting the use of agrotoxins and genetically modified seeds in agriculture, as well as antibiotics and growth promoters in livestock farming.
3. Condemning all decoy solutions to climate change and geoengineering techniques proposed by capital that speculate on nature, including the carbon market.
4. Prohibiting mining in the territories of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities as well as environmental protection and conservation areas and demanding that all mining be publicly controlled and used for the common good – not for profit.
5. Strictly controlling the use of plastics, including in the food and beverage industry, and making it mandatory to recycling them.
6. Recognizing nature's goods (such as forests, water, and biodiversity) as universal common goods at the service of all people that are immune to capitalist privatization.
7. Recognizing peasants as the main caretakers of nature. We must fight against large landowners and carry out popular agrarian reforms so that we can combat social inequality and poverty in the countryside and produce more food in harmony with nature.
8. Implementing an extensive reforestation program, paid for with public resources, that ensures the ecological recovery of all areas near springs and riverbanks, slopes, and other ecologically sensitive areas or areas that are experiencing desertification.
9. Implementing a global policy to care for water that prevents the pollution of oceans, lakes, and rivers and that eliminates the contamination of surface and subsoil drinking water sources.
10. Defending the Amazon and other tropical forests of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands as ecological territories under the care of the peoples of their countries.
11. Implementing agroecology as a sociotechnical basis for food sovereignty, including the production of healthy food that is accessible to all.
12. Subsidizing the financing needed to implement solar and wind energy systems, which will be under the collective management of populations worldwide.
13. Implementing a global investment plan to provide public transportation based on renewable energies that makes it possible to reorganize and improve living conditions in cities, allowing for urban decentralization and making it possible for people to remain in the countryside.
14. Demanding that the industrialized countries of the North guarantee the financial resources to implement all of the necessary actions to rebuild the relationship between society and nature in a sustainable manner, understanding that these countries are historically responsible for global pollution and continue with unjust and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.
15. Demanding that all governments stop wars, close foreign military bases, and halt military aggression in order to save lives and the planet, rooted in the understanding that peace is a condition for a healthy life.
"For these ideas to materialize, we propose an international pact between religious leaders and institutions, environmental and people's movements, decision-makers, and governments, so that we can carry out a program that raises the consciousness of the entire population. We propose that an international conference be held so that we can bring together all collective actors who defend life. We must encourage people to fight for their rights in defense of life and nature. We must demand that the media assume its responsibility to defend the interests of the people and to defend equal rights, life, and nature.
We will always fight to save lives and our planet, to live in solidarity and in peace with social equality, emancipated from social injustices, exploitation, and discrimination of all kinds."
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/11/14/capitals-attack-on-nature-endangers-humanity
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