Denise Milani Homemade

Chico Buarque, Minister of Education Brazil

During a discussion at a U.S. university, he asked the former governor of the Federal District and current Minister of Education of Brazil, CRISTOVÃO Chico Buarque , what he thought about the internationalization of Amazonia .


A United Nations U.S. introduced his question, saying he hoped the response of a humanist and not a Brazilian.

This was the response Mr Cristóvão Buarque:

really, as a Brazilian, only speak against the internationalization of the Amazon. As much as our governments due care that heritage, and l is ours.

As a humanist, feeling the risk of degradation Environmental gets the Amazon, I can imagine his internationalization como también de todo lo demás, que  es de suma importancia para la humanidad. 

Si la Amazonia, desde una ética humanista, debe ser  internacionalizada, internacionalicemos también las  reservas de petróleo del mundo entero.   El petróleo es tan importante para el bienestar de la  humanidad como la Amazonia para nuestro futuro. A pesar de  eso, los dueños de las reservas creen tener el derecho de  aumentar o disminuir la extracción oil and its price up or not.

Similarly, the financial capital rich countries should be internationalized. If the Amazon is a reserve for all human beings, not be burned only by the will of an owner or a country. burn the Amazon is as serious as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions global speculators.

We can not have financial reserves serve to burn entire countries in the luxury of speculation. Also, before Amazon, I would like to see internationalization of the great museums of the world.


The Louvre should not belong only to France. Every museum in the world is the guardian of the most beautiful produced by human genius. You can not let that cultural heritage, natural heritage as Amazon be manipulated and destroyed for the pleasure an owner or a country.

Not long ago, a Japanese millionaire decided buried along with him, a picture of a great teacher. By contrast, this picture would have been internationalized.

During this meeting, the UN is doing Millennium Forum, but some presidents had difficulties participating countries, due to unpleasant situations arising on the border of U.S. So I think that New York, to host the United Nations, must be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all mankind.

In the same way as Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia ... each city, with its specific beauty, history of the world should belong to the world.

If the U.S. wants to internationalize Amazon, not risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilian , internationalize all nuclear arsenals. Just think they already showed they were able to use those weapons, causing destruction thousands of times greater than the unfortunate fires burning in the forests of Brazil.

In their speeches, the current presidential candidates United States have defended the idea of \u200b\u200binternationalizing world's forest reserves in exchange for debt.

Let's start using this debt to ensure that every child the world has the chance to eat and go to school . Internationalize the children treating them all no matter what country they were born, as heritage deserve care worldwide. much more than they deserve in the Amazon. When leaders treat poor children of the world as a World Heritage Humanity will not allow that work when they should study, they die when they should live.

As a humanist, I accept defend the internationalization of the world, but while the world I treated as Brazilian fight for the Amazon is ours. Only ours!

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