The Brumadinho Disaster, Minas Gerais, Brazil: What “Train” (Thing in Minas Gerais Language) Is This?

• In Event: Products of Biotecnoscience: Modified Living Beings Used in Health and Agriculture Activities - I

Abstract

The explanations of the tragedies that occurred in the cities of Mariana and Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on one hand, seem to try to explain the causes and risks involved in the claims; and, on the other hand, insist on repeating unsustainable arguments from the point of view of the security of the environment and of the living beings that live there.

It is controversy over controversy, after the recurring tragedy of the mud-sea that buries and shuts down hundreds of real human witnesses and the millions of nonhumans - species of animals and plants of the region - condemned to the same destination.

Ironically and dramatically, Minas Gerais, which has no sea in its territory, is tragically bathed by a sea of ​​mud, destruction, tragic news, suspicions of corruption, incompetence, absence of sustainability and so on.

The flag of Minas Gerais has the motto “Libertas quae sera tamen”, which means that it is never too late to be free. This motto could inspire some culminating questions. When will its territory be freed from the burden of being a producer of great riches and of great tragedies? How can we not suffer while a sea of mud flows through valleys, from the waste of exploitation of minerals causing so much destruction and death? How can we not think of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the current multinational Vale, that denied its last name? What would she, Luzia (human fossil), our more undisciplined and oldest inhabitant of Minas Gerais, think about that?

Author

• Eduardo Nazareth Paiva, EDUARDO NAZARETH PAIVA