In the book “We Are The Climate,” US writer Jonathan Safran Foer recalls examples of how the population of the United States engaged in voluntary actions during World War II.
How to turn off the lights at night, something that was only required from residents of certain port cities to make the lives of German submarines more difficult, notorious sinks of enemy ships.
Nor would I have to go that far. In Brazil, financing campaigns such as “Gold for the Good of São Paulo”, to fund the resistance of the Paulistas during the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution, were successful.
But Foer’s example is interesting: he uses it early in the book to show that, although we walk on the threshold of the point of no return of climate apocalypse, we (us, me, you, our children, etc.) do not engage, we do not turn off our lights to reverse or postpone environmental collapse.
We are not at war, this is the point of Foer.
Today, and although COP30 in Brazil, the risk of global warming until it seems to be. Each time it sounds more chimerical to count on the contest of people even in a modest Friday without a car. Except for financial reasons (expensive parking, congestion, fines), Nego does not abandon individual transportation.
There are adherents of the race, to stay in this metit, who not only do not bother to serve the car to drive the training site as they don’t even think about it. And it would not be difficult to include in gravel the displacement to the park. On the contrary, it would function as heating or stimulus variation.
At some point in the pandemic, we believe that certain forced changes in habit would be permanently adopted. He dreamed of the remote work and the end of the traffic loaded, for example.
Not even the bicycle vision as a transport player meter.
In São Paulo, the city, reactive as it is, lives to refute the complaints of cyclists and to say that it expands the cycling mesh, which, in any case, is short of the previously established.
But it is no use just protesting against the public power, although it is absent in planning, achievement and inspection: bikers if they serve the bike lanes without thinking twice and drivers park their cars in them.
In a recent Saturday pedal by Rio Pequeno, in order to eat the glorious feijoada of Zeca’s seasoning, I had to leave several times from the bike lanes of Otacílio Tomanik and José Joaquim Seabra avenues.
It can be argued that Brazil’s main contribution to global warming does not come from transportation, but from soil use changes-in that, deforestation for pasture creation. But renouncing the frequent consumption of beef, something perfectly possible and largely healthy, it is also being chemical-not enough all the advertising stimulus of the industry, cuts like picanha became electoral currency.
I did not want to sound so apocalyptic, but as a friend told me that recently ended his first novel, the text sometimes makes a life of its own, (almost) despite the author’s will. To the beans of style, then, and perhaps the pamphleteer is even more suitable for its mobilization force.
Since we do nothing to avoid our collapse, we could not reduce our consumer habits, Zé Ruela which is from Zé Ruela.
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