For Hazhir
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The drone hovers
under
the iron-gray dome
of heaven. Bloodshed
turns
the gray dome
furnace-red. Evenings we
warm
our hands
over the news.
A Note on Brazil from Theologian Leonardo Boff
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There must be a way out of the present crisis
Leonardo Boff
Theologian-Philosopher
Earthcharter Commission
The political and economic crisis we are now experiencing provides an opportunity for truly profound changes, such as political, tributary and agrarian reform. To have the correct focus, is important to first consider some facts. In the first place, we must see the crisis as part of the great crisis of humanity as a whole, rather than from within, and external to the present course of history. To think of the Brazilian crisis without considering the world crisis is not to think about the Brazilian crisis. We are part of a greater whole. In our case, we cannot escape the attention of the large countries and great corporations, as the Group of 7 considers where the principal assets for the ecological basis of the economy of the future are concentrated: the abundance of drinking water, the great humid jungles, immense biodiversity and 6 billion hectares of farmland. The Imperial strategy does not care that a continental nation in the South Atlantic, such as Brazil, is not aligned with the global interests and to the contrary, seeks an independent path for its own development.