The conversation with was one of the highlights of. I was so anxious for this event that I couldn’t sleep. I spent the dawn wondering what I would be and separated three books to autograph them. And it was better than I expected.
The Sheet It says journalists should avoid using clichés to preserve the objectivity of information, but I need to open an exception to say that the training program was the best thing that has happened in my life in the last two years. The class with Ailton Krenak made me think that having chosen journalism was not a mistaken decision and that nature needs to be preserved for the future of humanity.
Among all present, no one could hide the excitement of knowing the great thinker of human essence, in the middle of Corpus Christi’s holiday. It’s hard to even think about which titles we can call it: environmentalist, philosopher, immortal, poet. Krenak is all that and a little more – what made us very happy that sunny morning.
The conversation was very important to resume some issues that were discussed during these months with our class. Early on, the importance of thinking about the environmental agenda was highlighted from our location. We turn our attention to the problems of, while the local ecosystem fades over the predatory human activity. Just as where Krenak lives, it is being consumed by the predation of the world, the metropolitan region of is devoured by the expansion of human activity, which segregates us.
The nearly two hours of conversation went very fast. Despite the worrying subject, it drew attention to its ability to synthesis and oratory. It was as if we were talking to a dear uncle. The property with which I was dealing with subjects of the human dimension reminded me of my high school geography teacher. Ziza was one of the people who encouraged me to study journalism, because I wondered too much on her classes.
I wrote down several important phrases from this meeting: “We are all between the skewer and the ember”; “Our wrong way of operating the earth has metastasis”; “Did you already know that the hospice’s freaks would come to power?”
Krenak Alfinetava, counted parables and brought examples of her experience, and we thought of a possible future project – if there is one.
Journalism has repeated ideas to postpone the end of the world for at least 30 years. We share that everything can be recycled, that a new invention arises more efficient to save-but to create it, we must explore the other half. In the end, nothing is sustainable; We could no longer produce something that lasts, with beginning, middle and end.
We should not just report disasters, technical data and lobbying from the sectors of the economy. We can use our space to question hegemony and echo the voice of those who are, in fact, preserving nature to survive.
In the end, he autographed my books and made a face of curiosity when I said I read all his books in a single day. In the final moments of the conversation, I created courage and asked a question – that came out well cliché – what we, young people, we can do to postpone the end of the world. The answer, understood between the lines of a parable in which a wolf devoured a sheep, made me think that we like to emphasize the desire to postpone the end of the world.
But postpone … for what? And when it is over, will we have a journalist there?
This text was produced during the 69th Folha Daily Journalism Training Program, sponsored by CNA (National Confederation of Agriculture) and Philip Morris Brasil. The course had emphasis on the environment.
