IDEIAS PARA O BRASIL AJUDAR A ADIAR O FIM DO MUNDO

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the work “Ideas to postpone the end of the world.” (KRENAK, Ailton) and consider whether the performance of the Environmental Policy of the Federal Government follows the same preservationist direction pointed out by the book or if it walks in an antagonistic path. The analysis makes us reflect on the importance of preserving biomes since advances in environmental research demonstrate that forest fires and deforestation directly affect global warming. Despite the preservation of the environment being a guarantee expressly inserted in the Brazilian Federal Constitution1, the contemporary national environmental administration shows a serious disregard for the issue, with a real lack of equipment of environmental agencies, which is verified in the record-breaking numbers of fires commonly verified in the last, confronting agreements signed internationally in disagreement with Bioethics and Biolaw. Such a position goes against the position of the work “Ideas to postpone the end of the world.” (KRENAK, Ailton) that seeks to “humanize” elements of nature that, in this way, in a more detailed look, would be subject to rights and duties, to be preserved and defended.  A well-known thinker today, the indigenous Ailton Krenak fights for the rights of indigenous peoples, and, in the book in question, he attributes to modern civilizations the role of predators of the environment and analyzes whether there is humanity in acts of self-destruction, with the excessive exploitation of nature. , reaching the exhaustion of biomes. The book was conceived after a trip to Lisbon, based on interviews and lectures given by him. Analyzing the work, we verified the importance of meeting environmental goals, however, as demonstrated, objectives such as waste reduction are not priorities of the current Brazilian environmental management, which acts in breach of the provisions of the Brazilian Federal Constitution.  Among other causes, the absence of the State and the lack of equipment carried out by the Federal Government in environmental agencies are directly linked to the increase in fires, contributing to the destruction of biomes.