"A peasant is worth less than a cow and a chicken than I reported in Caaguazú in Paraguay. And in Brazil nordesde: who have no land plant , who has plant earth.
Our fields are empty, Latin American cities are hell big as countries. Mexico City is growing at a rate of half a million people and thirty miles per year : is five times more people than all of Norway. In a little while, at the end of the century, the capital of Mexico and the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo will be the world's largest cities.
Southern cities on the planet are as large northern cities, but seen in a distorting mirror. Copycat modernization multiplied the model's shortcomings. Latin American capitals, noisy, smoky, no bicycle lanes or toxic gas filters.
clean air and silence are items as rare and so expensive that only the wealthiest people can afford.
In Brazil, Volkswagen and Ford make cars without filters to sell in Brazil and other Third World countries.
However, the same Brazilian subsidiaries of Volkswagen and Ford to produce cars filters (catalytic converters) to sell in the First World. Argentina produces unleaded gasoline for export. For the domestic market, however, produces poisonous gas. Throughout Latin America, cars are free to throw lead by the exhaust pipes. From the point of view of the cars, the lead increases the octane and increase the rate of profit. From the point of view of people, lead damages the brain and nervous system. Automobiles, owners of the cities, do not listen to outsiders.
Year 2000, memories of the future: people with oxygen masks, birds coughing instead of singing, trees that refuse to grow.
Currently in Mexico City, are signs that say: Please do not bother walls and Please do not hit the door . There is still no sign: is recommended not to breathe, but something similar is suggesting now, official warnings to the public health. The give away cars and factories into the atmosphere every day, eleven thousand tons of gas and smoke enemies. There is a mist of dirt in the air, children are born with blood lead and more than one occasion been raining dead birds on the city that was, at times, not so long ago, the most transparent region air. Now the cocktail of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide becomes three times higher than the maximum tolerable to humans. What is the maximum tolerable for urban beings?
Five million cars: the city of San Pablo has been defined as a patient on the eve of the attack. A cloud of gas masks. Only on Sundays you can see from the outside, the most developed city in Brazil. In the streets of the center, lighted signs warn people every day:
AIR QUALITY: RUIN
According to the measuring stations, the air was dirty or very dirty during 323 days of 1986.
In June 1989, Santiago de Chile disutó with Mexico City and Sao Paulo in a few days without rain or wind, the world championship of contamination. Cerro San Cristobal, in the heart of Santiago, not seen, hidden behind a mask of smog. The nascent democratic government of Chile imposed some minimal action against eight hundred tons of gas each day are incorporated into the city air. Then the cars and factories screamed to the sky: those limitations violated the freedom of business and hurt property rights. The freedom of money, that despises freedom of others, had been unlimited under the dictatorship of General Pinochet, and had made a valuable contribution to general poisoning. The right to pollute is a major incentive for foreign investment, almost as important as the right to pay wages dwarfs. And after all, General Pinochet had never denied the Chilean the right to breathe shit. "
Of Use and throw The world seen from a Latin American by Eduardo Galeano ecology
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