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by Chris Zelglia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forest is not a backdrop for progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not the green that counterbalances the gray of the metropolises, nor the view that beautifies sustainability initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forest is a subject: it reflects, feels, communicates. It tells its own story in the language of wind, rain, sap, and silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Brazil still sees it as scenery, something to be exploited, represented, commercialized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By ignoring its voice, we perpetuate the colonial logic that turns everything alive into a resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Amazon does not need to be rescued; it needs to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The belief that humans are the axis of the Earth fuels ecological tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This worldview casts the forest as a supporting actor, a space waiting for management and protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cosmologies have always known: the forest is a living entity, with will, spirit, and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ignore this is to continue telling the planet\u2019s story in the first-person singular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we treat the forest solely as \u201cthe environment,\u201d we diminish the emotional and spiritual connection that native peoples have with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is within this connection that true ecological knowledge can be found \u2014 a knowledge based on reciprocity, coexistence, and listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forest does not need to be taught by Western science; it is the one who teaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COP30 has the opportunity to challenge this worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this will only become possible if the places where decisions are made are occupied by those who speak from the forest, not about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ecology of tomorrow is anticolonial, and it begins when we recognize that the planet is not an object, but a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forest is a political and emotional subject; it generates life, language, and meaning \u2014 not just oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rediscovering the deep Brazil means relearning how to listen to the voice of the forest, not merely quantifying it in hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as we continue treating it as scenery, we will perpetuate the same narrative of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is urgently necessary to change the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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