Open AccessAn Alliance for Life
Author(s) -
Ângela Mendes,
Filha de Chico Mendes
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of earth and environmental science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2634-8845
DOI - 10.47363/jeesr/2022(4)164
Subject(s) - humanity , amazon rainforest , threatened species , alliance , tree of life (biology) , environmental ethics , political science , ecology , law , philosophy , biology , biochemistry , phylogenetics , habitat , gene
I begin this text with the sentence that my father left when he began to feel that his life was being threatened: “At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I was fighting to save the Amazon Rainforest. Now, I realize that I’m fighting to save humanity. Chico Mendes, 1987”. The socio-environmental movement and its leaders are under threat today. The rubber tree is under threat. The Amazon is under threat. Humanity is under threat.