Sorry for the bad translation on some parts, i got the message in portuguese.
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During a debate on an american university, the ex-governor of brazilian's capital city Distrito Federal, current education minister Cristovam Buarque, was questioned about what he thought of the internationalization of the Amazon Forest. The young american made the question expecting an asnwer from a humanist and not a brazilian. This was his answer:
"In fact, as a brazilian i would simply be against the internationalization of the amazon forest. Despite the fact that our government doesn't have the proper care with that treasure, it is ours. As a humanist, feeling the risk of enviromental degradation that the forest is going through, i can imagine it's internationalization, as also of all other important things to human kind.
If the amazon forest, under an humanist point of view, should be internationalized, we should internationalizate also the petroleum reserves of the whole world... The petroleum is so important for the wellfare of humankind as the forest is to our future.
Even so, the owners of the petroleum reserves feel they have the right to raise or lower the extraction of petroleum and raising or not it's price.
Likewise, the funds of the rich countries should be internationalized. If the amazon forest is a treasure for all human beings, it can't be burned by the will of an owner or a country. Burning the forest is as bad as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions of the markets especulators. We can't let that the financial reserves be used to burn whole countries in the euphoria of especulation.
Even before the amazon forest, i would like to see the internationalization of all big museums of the world. The Louvre can't belong only to France. Each museum of the world is a guardian of the most beautifull things produced by the human geniosity. We can't let that culture treasure, as the natural treasure of the amazon, be manipulated and destroyed by the will of a proprietary or a country.
Not long ago, a japanese milionaire decided to bury himself with a painting of a great master. Before that, that painting should have been internationalized.
During that meeting, the United Nations are having a discussion of the milenium, but some presidents of certain countries have had difficulties to participate because of embarassments on the border with USA. That's why i think that New York, as the home of UN, should be internationalized. At least manhattan should belong to the whole human kind. Such as paris, venice, rome, london, rio de janeiro, brasilia, recife, every town, with it's especific beauty, it's world history, should belong to the whole world.
If the USA want to internationalize the amazon forest, because of the risk of letting it on the hands of brazilians, we should then internationalize all the nuclear warfare that is on the hands of the USA.
Because they have already shown that they are able to use those weapons, provoking destruction thousands times bigger than the burning of the forest in Brazil.
I defend the idea that we should internationalize the forest reserves of the world in exchange for the debt. We shal start using that debt to make sure that every child of the world has the oportunity to EAT and to go to school.
We shall internationalize the children, treating them, all of them, no matter where they were born, as a treasure that deserves the care of the whole world. Poor children of the world as a treasure of mankind, they shouldn't live. As a humanist, i accept to defend the internationalization of the world.
But as long as the world treats me as a brazilian, i'll fight so that the amazon be ours. ONLY ors."
