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Where the Trees Are a Desert Where the Trees are a Desert stories from the ground This publication is a joint collaboration of FASE-ES and Carbon Trade Watch, Transnational Institute. Design: Tamra Gilbertson Printing: Adelante FASE-ES Rua Graciano Neves, 377 2o. Pavimento - Centro 29015.330 - Vitória - ES Brasil Tel.: (27) 33226330 Fax: (27) 32237436 Email: [email protected] www.fase.org.br Carbon Trade Watch Transnational Institute Paulus Potterstraat 20 1071 DA Amsterdam Netherlands Tel: +31-20-662-6608 Fax: +31-20-675-7176 [email protected] www.tni.org Contents of this booklet may be quoted or reproduced, provided that the source of information is acknowledged. TNI would like to receive a copy of the document in which this booklet is used or quoted. You can stay informed of TNI publications and activities by subscribing to TNI’s bi-weekly email newsletter. Send your request to [email protected] few examples Whenever possible original meanings represent the drama and styles were maintained in translation. in this form of Special Thanks to the local people of globalisation as well Brazil for their generosity and kindness and who continue to struggle against as the ‘great’ the green desert. This publication is dedicated to you. monoculture of trees Winfried Overbeek Amsterdam, November 2003 Contents: 4 Neo-Colonialism - A Map 6 The Monoculture of Fear by: Marcelo Calazans, coordinator of the FASE/ES. Renata Valentim, psychoanalyst, teacher 12 The Embezzlement of Cellulose and Charcoal And the Impacts of Private Property by: Daniela Meirelles, FASE/ES 16 Forcing a Rural Economy by: Tamra Gilbertson, Carbon Trade Watch, Transnational Institute 22 Carbon Trading and Certification: The Greenwashing of Plantations by: Klemens Laschefski Friends of the Earth, Germany Tropical Forests Spokesperson 28 The Monoculture of Consumption And the Direction of ‘Civilization’ by: Winfried Overbeek, FASE/ES NEO-COLONIALISM Brazil: The largest country in South America; shares common boundaries with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador Area: total area: 8,511,965 km2 land area: 8,456,510 km2 Total Population 172.4 million Trade in goods as a share of GDP (%) 23.2 Life expectancy 68.3 Foreign direct investment, net inflows in Total Illiteracy (% age 15 and above) 12.7 reporting Country (current US$) 22.6 billion Illiteracy female (% age 15 and above) 12.8 Present value of debt (current US$) 237.6 *Forests (1,000 km2) 5.3 million Short-term debt outstanding (current US$) *Deforestation (average annual % 1990-2000) 0.4 28.3 billion *Water use (% of total resources) 43,022 Aid per capita (current US$) 2.0 GDP (current $) 502.5 billion Minas Gerais area: 587,172 km2 ISM population: 15,831,800 France area: 547,030, km2 population: 59,329,691 Espírito Santo area: 45,597 km2 population: 2,550,000 The Netherlands area: 41,532 km2 population: 15,892,237 Source: www.uoregon.edu mapquest Brazilian Steel Economy: Total production: 27 million tons per year Capacity: 32 million tons per year Brazilian domestic consumption: 18 million tons per year Brazilian export to USA: 36% Brazilian export to EU and rest of Latin America: 40% Source: Third World Network, no. 275, 15-28 Feb. 2002 Bahia Minas Brazil Gerais Espírito Santo Rio de Janeiro São Paulo The Monoculture of Fear Scripts. Scripts. Scripts. Scripts. Scripts. Scripts. Scripts. Oswald de Andrade1 Opening his accident, his foot full of screws, of all the doctors and public agencies he visited, of crutches, of no ondon, Frankfurt, Paris, Ottawa, Den Haag, resources. For years his case has been open, like LSydney, Brussels, Washington, 2003 many others he knows – one deceased, other invalids. The wild consumption of paper and steel is out of Today, Mr. Antonio feels constantly threatened by control. The World Bank advances with its five different enemies: The trade union that experiments in the carbon market. The North does represented him, lawyers who pretend to defend not want to reduce its emissions, nor its standard of him, doctors who falsify diagnostics, judges that consumption. Failure of the Kyoto Protocol. work for the company vision, and dismissive public agencies. His house was shot at. His family is Brasília, São Mateus, Conceição da Barra, hidden. He watches his back constantly with no one Curvelo, 2003 around. He is making a statement. The uniformity of eucalyptus monoculture looms Curvelo, Minas Gerais – October 2002 before a diverse landscape. A drain for the pollution in the North. In the South the green desert grows. Diadorim lives in the rural part of Minas Gerais, in It fixes carbon and it liberates fear. Exile of the the Cerrado (the Savannah). She smokes pig, rural people. makes sausage, fixes, creates, constructs everything that is necessary São Mateus, Espírito to satisfy her Santo - March 2003 “Eucalyptus have been family. grown with blood,” says Diadorim lives Mr. Antonio is a short totally self- man. He wears eyeglasses Mr. Antonio. He is the sufficiently. To with thick frames from main witness for the live in the the 1960s. He speaks his Brazilian native language with poisoned from agro-toxics interior people rudeness. He was filing a and the mutilated from have to be complaint in a Vitória strong. She police station. He does not the chainsaws. creates her trust the police from his children with city, São Mateus. In his old Volkswagen, with his the same force and stubbornness of her ancestors. friend Peter they drive up highway BR 101 North She lives on a small country property, in a in the monotony of a landscape replete with community with intense relations of solidarity, that eucalyptus. They drive on a single track of broken congregate for many parties on many days. The asphalt passing logging trucks from Aracruz youngest are leaving the country, going to the city Cellulose. He does not drive behind them. He to study. They do not want the destiny of their knows that if the truck turns and jacks the trailer, parents. They want different horizons without the the logs will fall off causing an accident like many rain at the end of the day. They do not want the other rollovers. The road of the BR 101 hides older dryness that makes this rain evaporate in minutes and more remote roads, opened in the soil from the and disappear into the veins of the earth. Her feet of Indigenous and Afro-Brasilians who lived or property, each day a little more, becomes isolated passed by there. into the eucalyptus of Plantar and V&M. Many of her neighbours have already left with no Mr. Antonio talks a lot. He tells a long fragmented alternatives. Already Diadorim’s fourth daughter is history. His history. His life, common to many preparing to go to the capital, Belo Horizonte. It people from this area. He givens an account of his doesn’t matter. Diadorim trusts in the future and contract, of his more than 15 years with the company; supports herself with a secular past of strong people, cattle tenders, ox-drivers, pasturing lands Opposite page - Quilombala community, north Espírito without fences. Only one thing can worry Diadorim, Santo. A young man puts fresh mud on a smoky oven the proximity of the eucalyptus with its agrotoxics, used to burn wood for charcoal. Quilombala communities the weight of passing trucks, the dust, the native were set up by African slaves where some of their Cerrado that she saw destroyed. Now, the descendents still live subsistently today. Their livelihoods are greatly threatened by the surrounding eucalyptus. companies want her support for a green stamp and “carbon credits”. They want her leadership above Timeline Brazil 1963-2003* 1964 April 11 Army chief Gen. Humberto Castelo 1963 February Pres. Goulart approves federal land distribution and doubles minimum wage. Branco elected by congress to serve Jan. 1 Goulart wins election and returns power to Conservative opposition grows. Goulart's term. New military dictator executive Congress. March 31- Military and several state governments ship reverse Goulart reforms. Freezing Cuts in U.S. aid and capital flight revolt against Goulart. Goulart flees to wages, banning strikes, foreign export among elites. Inflation reaches 100 economy model established. all and her influence on the still-resistant commu- cellulose. The official slogans are, “This is the nity to clear the way for eucalyptus. The company country that goes forward”, “ Love it or leave it”, calls a meeting. The city hall invites a hearing. waking up the ‘giant sleeping country’ with the Diadorim knows that there is something... and says kicks of the military about-face. The projects of iron no. She observes her dry stream, her poisoned and cellulose production disembark into the water, her re-directed way Cerrado of towards the city. They Diadorim and into never had dialogue and the Mata Atlantica now they want her to sup- Professors, trade in the state of port this ‘carbon’? It only unionists, musicians, Espírito Santo. increases the plantations, Aracruz, Plantar, the agricultural unemploy- poets, students – exiled Mannesmann and ment and her solitude. The critical intelligence. more. They buy and solitude of the Cerrado in take prime lands, between the 2 million preferring flat, hectares of eucalyptus in Minas Gerais. fertile, continuous areas. They don’t care what was there before: Atlantic forest, Indigenous peoples, Brazil 1967 – 1970: The arrival of the violence Cerrado, villages, agriculture, Quilombos communi- ties, pasture commons, subsistence agriculture. Pelé playing football. Médici in politics. The worst period of the long Brazilian military dictatorship In Espírito Santo, the Quilombola families were (from ‘64 to ‘84). Persecution, arrest, torture of visited by Lieutenant Merçon, while the Indigenous political prisoners, annulled rights, closed congress, Tupinikins were visited by Captain Orlando. The and vertical power.
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