The New Gold
The domestication of the Amazon rainforest since the European conquest has been a topic of geographical, cultural and social change that seems not to matter to Western thought, with a thirst for gold and riches, that is individual havens in global treasures that should be immaterial and protected drastically if we think about our own survival as a species. The Amazon is not only a metaphor of "lungs of the world" for its exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide with the atmosphere, a fundamental process that we can all breathe, but its qualities beyond, without the Amazon Trapeze South America would be a desert because it generates currents of wet air from the mountains of the Andes, hydrating the continent and helping the stability of different biospheres, it also helps with its forest in a heroic role to counteract and eliminate gas greenhouse, regulating the temperature and impediment climate change, and many more qualities.
What is our way of relating to the earth? and what really consist our wealth? Mining concessions, deforestation, artisanal extraction of materials like gold and coltan, oil, industrial fishing, animal trafficking and wastes, are just some of the issues that seem to have no control in this zone that is dying slowly. Avoid over Amazon exploitation is a way of strengthening the resilience of the planet and its stability.
