The site was launched on the 5th and intends to bring news from the six Brazilian regions and present its possibilities for the benefit of man.
Not by chance, on the 5th, World Environment Day, the bilingual platform Earth News Terra was launched. Conceived by journalist Lourival Sant’Anna, also editor of the portal, and directed by Marcello Queiroz, the site proposes to bring information that connects the cultural, economic and scientific points of the environment, climate and human geography.
The launch came in handy in a week marked by the news of the disappearance of Funai (Fundação Nacional do Índio), Bruno Araújo Pereira, and English journalist Dom Phillip, a contributor to The Guardian, in the Amazon. The fact even stirred the international press, since the disappearance of both opened up even more the problems that involve the region.
These problems should not exist, since, as Queiroz says, the Amazon must be seen as a solution and not an equation without a solution.
“The proposal is to have a news channel and at the same time show that nature is a solution and not a problem as is always debated”, he says. According to him, the objective is to reveal the potential of the six Brazilian biomes (Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal and Pampa). “The standing forest has much more to do with the solution, in all its forms, whether in medicines, food or active ingredients”, he highlights.
For him, the wealth of the environment can become the solution, which translates into sustainability. “It’s no use thinking that there’s no way out, that global warming is there and nothing else can be done. On the contrary”. A proof of this, according to him, is the emergence of Earth News Terra, which was created with the aim of showing the potential of nature for the benefit of man.
Since the creation by the UN (United Nations) of World Environment Day in 1972, there has been talk of preservation and care for the climate. However, since then, things have only gotten worse and the data are alarming. So much so that the UN itself said it was very concerned about the data on climate degradation, revealed on May 18, with the new edition of the State of the Climate report, which showed that the last seven years are the hottest ever recorded on earth.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the “global energy system is broken” and, therefore, the world is “increasingly close to a climate catastrophe”. In his assessment, the results presented expose the “sad repetition of human failure to combat climate problems”.
For Queiroz, Brazil will only be an advanced country when it combines the knowledge of traditional peoples and science to patent the solutions hidden in the Amazon and other biomes, in the form of drugs, food, cosmetics, raw materials and supplies.
