Reflections

Regarding a “better” society

Is it really “better” a society where possibilities are restricted to less than a third of the population? What happens with solidarity and even with the sense of security that is lost when one is surrounded by people who covets or envies what other has? Is it possible to be happy in a violent and fragmented society? What happens with creativity and intellectual development that require a liberating and enriching education? Is it possible to be happy in a consumption bubble governed by foreign interests?

Hoenir Sarthou

Regarding de denial of global warming

Exactly the same techniques used by public relations from tobacco companies are employed today in denying the even more visible evidence, more proven: the connection between global warming and the consumption of fossil fuels that expel massive quantities of methanol and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Again, more effective than denial is to pretend that things are not clear, that there is disagreement among scientific groups, that there are two sides to the matter, equally respectable.

Antonio Muñoz Molina

Regarding those who have assumed the course of the world

We testify to a singular fact: inasmuch as damages to nature increase, affecting more and more societies and the quality of life, simultaneously grows the awareness that 90% of those damages are the result of the irresponsible and irrational activity of human beings, more specifically, of those elites of economic, political, cultural and media power that have become large multilateral corporations and have assumed on their own the course of the world.

Leonardo Boff