The memories of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira serve as a reminder of the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights and the preservation of the Amazon. Their mission to elevate Indigenous voices and protect the forest reflects a belief in the Amazon as a repository of ancestral knowledge rather than a resource for exploitation. Current events highlight the urgency of collective action over individual greed. The approaching COP30 showcases the disparities and economic exploitation surrounding environmental summits, raising concerns about the implications for local communities and their rights.
The Amazon is not a resource to be exploited, but a living, breathing archive of ancestral knowledge, dignity, and resistance.
Dom Phillips summarized in his posthumous book that only collective, community thinking, not individual greed, can save the Amazon.
What I have witnessed in the Amazon is not just environmental degradation, but the erosion of meaning, of belonging.
The crisis is not only ecological, but also civilizational.
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