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Coasting on Past Glory

The Amazon is still largely intact, but the future hinges on decisions being made now.

From the window of a Boeing, few countries are greener than Brazil. Since much of this vast territory in the heart of South America is still unpeopled and unblemished, it’s not surprising that Brazil looks good against the backdrop of a mistreated planet. It ranks 34th of 149 nations in Yale and Columbia’s Environmental Performance Index – greener than Ireland (35th) and the United States (39th). But how long will the country be able to hold on to this favorable score?

To get a better look, you have to go to 9,000 meters, the altitude from which the NASA remote-sensing satellites sweep the earth. Every year, scientists at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) pore over satellite images to produce the most detailed survey of deforestation of any nation in the world. Such candor has won Brazil kudos, but also criticism. Brazil is the fourth biggest contributor of greenhouse gases globally, of which 75 percent comes from the felling and burning of forests.

So when data released by INPE in late May showed that 5,850 square kilometers of forest (an area larger than Brunei) had disappeared from August 2007 to April 2008 – a 17 percent spike from the year before – the planet took notice. “Brazil has a fantastic endowment from nature but is failing when it comes to managing it,” says Judicael Clevelario Junior, head of environmental studies at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the census bureau.

Brazil’s green laurels are not an illusion. Four fifths of its electric power comes from hydroelectric plants. It is the world leader in biofuels – nearly 30 percent of its cars run on ethanol. The trouble is that these virtues reflect sound decisions made in the 1970s, during the ambitious military government of Gen. Ernesto Geisel. Brazil has not always followed them up.

(…) Fortunately, Brazil has options. Its booming economy is not beholden to coal-fired power plants, and the rain forest is still largely intact. “Brazil has a rare opportunity to transform itself into a rich country and still maintain its natural capital,” says Clevelario Jr. If it can go back to its old habit of making the right environmental moves.

(Newsweek, July 14th 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/143696)

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Wangari Maathaï: “Je rêve qu’en replantant des millions
d’arbres, on oriente l’Afrique vers la paix.”

J’ai longtemps cru que le monde était une vallée de terre riche, dominée para les contreforts des monts Aberdore et au nord par le mont Kenya. Je pensais que les acacias au feuillage mince et dur, les torrents vivaces et purs où nous allions chercher l’eau étaient éternels. (...) À mes yeux, cette vallée du Rift où mon père travaillait dans la ferme d’un colon britannique était l’univers tout entier. Et cet univers avait la couleur des forêts. (...)

De chez moi, on pouvait apercevoir les neiges du mont Kenya, à 5000 mètres d’altitude. Il y en avait encore beaucoup à cette époque. Et mon peuple, les Kikuyu, respectueux de cette majesté qui émergeait parfois des nuages, considérait la montagne comme sacrée. (...)

Si je vous décris ces paysages, c’est parce qu’ils ont aujourd’hui disparu et que cette perte est une menace mortelle pour le Kenya, l’Afrique et peut-être le monde. (...)

Notez pourtant ce chiffre stupéfiant: à l’époque de la colonisation britannique, 30% du territoire étaient couverts par la forêt. Aujourd’hui, la forêt représente à peine 2% des terres. Mon rêve s’est donc dessiné peu à peu avec la disparition des arbres et la fonte des neiges du mont Kenya. Oh, il a commencé modestement, et sur une idée toute simple: à ces femmes qui décrivaient leurs champs devenus infertiles, j’ai proposé de replanter des arbres. C’était en 1974, et je n’avais alors pas de stratégie très elaborée. Mais je suis allée voir un forestier et j’ai réclamé des plantes. Quinze millions. Il a ri. « Quinze millions ? » « Nous sommes 15 millions de Kenyans. Un Kenyan, un arbre. » (...)

Quand on m’appela, un matin d’octobre 2004, pour m’annoncer qu’on m’attribuait le prix Nobel de la paix, je suis tombée des nues ! La paix ? ... Oui, la paix. Et c’est bien de cela, au fond, qu’il s’agit. Détruire l’environnement affecte les conditions de survie des hommes et fournit le cadre de conflits potentiels. Paix, gestion durable des ressources et bonne gouvernance sont indissociablement liées. Y a-t-il meilleur symbole de paix et d’espoir qu’un arbre vivant ? (...)

(Le Monde, 22.07.2008.)

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Coasting on Past Glory

The Amazon is still largely intact, but the future hinges on decisions being made now.

From the window of a Boeing, few countries are greener than Brazil. Since much of this vast territory in the heart of South America is still unpeopled and unblemished, it’s not surprising that Brazil looks good against the backdrop of a mistreated planet. It ranks 34th of 149 nations in Yale and Columbia’s Environmental Performance Index – greener than Ireland (35th) and the United States (39th). But how long will the country be able to hold on to this favorable score?

To get a better look, you have to go to 9,000 meters, the altitude from which the NASA remote-sensing satellites sweep the earth. Every year, scientists at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) pore over satellite images to produce the most detailed survey of deforestation of any nation in the world. Such candor has won Brazil kudos, but also criticism. Brazil is the fourth biggest contributor of greenhouse gases globally, of which 75 percent comes from the felling and burning of forests.

So when data released by INPE in late May showed that 5,850 square kilometers of forest (an area larger than Brunei) had disappeared from August 2007 to April 2008 – a 17 percent spike from the year before – the planet took notice. “Brazil has a fantastic endowment from nature but is failing when it comes to managing it,” says Judicael Clevelario Junior, head of environmental studies at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the census bureau.

Brazil’s green laurels are not an illusion. Four fifths of its electric power comes from hydroelectric plants. It is the world leader in biofuels – nearly 30 percent of its cars run on ethanol. The trouble is that these virtues reflect sound decisions made in the 1970s, during the ambitious military government of Gen. Ernesto Geisel. Brazil has not always followed them up.

(…) Fortunately, Brazil has options. Its booming economy is not beholden to coal-fired power plants, and the rain forest is still largely intact. “Brazil has a rare opportunity to transform itself into a rich country and still maintain its natural capital,” says Clevelario Jr. If it can go back to its old habit of making the right environmental moves.

(Newsweek, July 14th 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/143696)

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Brazil is ................ than Ireland, and ................ than the United States.