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O Valor do Ouro que eles tanto ambicionam

As spokesman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa says in his book “The Fall from Heaven”: “When a human being dies, his ghost does not carry any of his goods on the back of the sky, even though he was very greedy. The things he has done or acquired are left on the earth and torment the living by reliving the desire for his presence.

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Criança Yanomami brincando na água do rio, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

Como diz o porta-voz Yanomami Davi Kopenawa em seu livro “A Queda do Céu”: “Quando um ser humano morre, seu fantasma não carrega nenhum de seus bens nas costas do céu, mesmo que ele fosse muito ganancioso. As coisas que ele fez ou adquiriu são deixadas na terra e atormentam os vivos revivendo o desejo de sua presença.

Somos diferentes dos brancos e nosso pensamento é diferente. Entre eles, quando um pai morre, seus filhos dizem que são felizes: “Vamos compartilhar sua mercadoria e seu dinheiro e mantê-los para nós!”

Nossos bens reais são as coisas da floresta: suas águas, seus peixes, sua caça, suas árvores e seus frutos. Sem mercadoria!

É por isso que, assim que alguém morre, fazemos desaparecer todos os objetos que ele guardava. Nós moemos seus colares de contas; queimamos sua rede, suas flechas, sua…

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Opinion | Pope Francis: The Covid-19 Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts – The New York Times

With some exceptions, governments have made great efforts to put the well-being of their people first, acting decisively to protect health and to save lives. The exceptions have been some governments that shrugged off the painful evidence of mounting deaths, with inevitable, grievous consequences. But most governments acted responsibly, imposing strict measures to contain the outbreak.

Yet some groups protested, refusing to keep their distance, marching against travel restrictions — as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom! Looking to the common good is much more than the sum of what is good for individuals. It means having a regard for all citizens and seeking to respond effectively to the needs of the least fortunate.

It is all too easy for some to take an idea — in this case, for example, personal freedom — and turn it into an ideology, creating a prism through which they judge everything.

God asks us to dare to create something new. We cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the crisis. We need economies that give to all access to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging and labor. We need a politics that can integrate and dialogue with the poor, the excluded and the vulnerable, that gives people a say in the decisions that affect their lives. We need to slow down, take stock and design better ways of living together on this earth.

US records 2,300 COVID-19 deaths as pandemic rises with holidays | TheHill

The numbers are raising concerns that the United States could see deaths from COVID-19 rise the numbers initially seen in the spring, when the pandemic first hit the country. The rise in deaths on Wednesday represented a 57 percent increase in the 14-day average, according to the Times.

Source: US records 2,300 COVID-19 deaths as pandemic rises with holidays | TheHill