Eucaliptugal: Requiem pola floresta Ibérica

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O primeiro de todo, pedir axuda e solidaridade coas persoas massacradas e co territorio destruido.

So coñezo o sitio https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/pedrogao-grande para realizar doazóns.
Agradecería infinito si me referirades algún outro lugar que reciba e distribua axudas para esta traxedia, e mellor ainda se aceptaran as doazóns en criptos (Steem, SBD ... ou calquera outra)
GRAZAS ANTICIPADAS POLA VOSA SOLIDARIEDADE e colaboración.

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Editorial

@freyman

Din que "unha chispa casual", un trebón seco causou o lume florestal de maiores dimensións e resultados mais dramáticos no mundo enteiro dende hai decenios.
Os datos indican que o lume producese por diversas causas, e a seca, a calor ou un raio poden ser a causa orixinal.

Mais na propagación, e que un evento de estas características tome tales dimensións, compre unha man que non podo considerar inocente, xa que castiga coa pena de morte a 64 persoas para que uns poucos beneficiense económicamente.

A xestión dos espazos, a lexislación axeitada, e a disposición dos recursos para que a cidadanía poida xestionar unha floresta que aporte valor (e o valor non se mide en cartos), depende do lexislador.

Mapa da escea do crime

Así, na Galiza e Portugal, existen mais de 1,000,000 de hectáreas de eucalipto !! Dúas Terceiras partes da cantidade de eucalipto plantado en ¡¡ AUSTRALIA!!!
O Mapa do Informe Eucalipto de GreenPeace amosanos a dimensión da traxedia ambental que supón, xa de por si a conversión de un bosque Atlantico, variado e con capacidade de xeneración de riqueza para a xente do común, por un monocultivo que provoca serios problemas edafolóxicos e que ten unha alta pirofilidade.

Neste tema centrase o artigo reseñado neste número de @valth.

Ainda que o impacto das altas temperaturas este ano, mencionado no artigo de @revelim é relevante para que a traxedia humana e ambental acadara tal dimensión, non o é menos certo que aldeas que conservaron a vexetación natural e autóctona salvaronse das lapas, o actuar os castiñeiros e oliveiras como cortalumes naturais.

Fonte da imaxe

O imaxinario productivista, e de sistemática de acumulación dos capitais, fartase de xustificar as necesidades da plantación e existencia dos elementos da cadea productiva que menos valor producen para a poboación en xeral, como pode ser a mellora xeneralizada do medio ambente, forzando o enfrontamento entre os intereses do agricutor ou propietario das terras e o resto da poboación. Un enfrentamento de interese esclusivo para o capital das pasteiras.

A expansão do cultivo do eucalipto em Portugal desenvolveu -se numa época em que na sociedade portuguesa, rescentemente urbanizada, tinham cada vez maior eco as atitudes e as filosofias de defesa ambiental e conservação da biodiversidade.

Foi neste contexto, em que os valores do produtivismo agrário se foram confrontando com um imaginário de defesa do ambiente (Mather, 2001), que se desenvolveu a moderna contestação ambiental ao cultivo desta espécie.
Assistiu-se a uma mudança da percepção da floresta e dos paradigmas da sua gestão, em que os benefícios ambientais são cada vez mais valorizados em comparação com os bens materias como a madeira. Ou seja, a imagem foi mudando da floresta “industrial” para a floresta “pós -industrial” ou “pós -produtivista” (Mather & Pereira, 2006). Os benefícios ambientais tendem, no entanto, a reverter a favor da população em geral, sendo difícil aos proprietários da floresta fazer a sua conversão em valor económico.

Assim, a mudança de paradigma da gestão florestal origina conflitos de interesses entre diferentes partes da sociedade. Só um cada vez maior esclarecimento e o mais possível quantificado, digamos cientificamente fundado, poderá ir elevando os níveis das decisões que compatibilizem os interesses justos na perspectiva do económico -privado e no contexto macro do interesse económico -social e sustentável das comunidades.

A introdução e a expansão do eucalipto em Portugal
António Monteiro Alves, // João Santos Pereira e João M. Neves Silva

Outros artigos amosan a destrucción provocada por unha xestión pésima do territorio, mais como há esperanza, non se pode menos que percurar alternativas á unha economía centrada na "eucaliptatización" da economía de Portugaliza. @kintar0 plantexa alternativas, que persoalmente considero viables para ter un monte mais productivo e integrado coas persoas.

No remate, o video de Paramo Pictures , amosanos o enfrontamento entre as posicións da defensa da terra e o "economicismo" puro e duro que nos ofrecen as administracións.

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A natureza sempre se recupera. Das mortes criadas pola avaricia, levará culpa o lume

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Raising £10,000 to Help the fire victims from Pedrogão Grande, Portugal!

@nelsoncc

Over the last 24h the population of Central Portugal has been struck by horror. People in villages, animals in traditional farms, children in rivers - all have been struck by wildfires that so far have killed 62 people - some of which were desperately trying to flee the site and got burnt alive inside their cars. Our goal is to help these people through a network of the local authorities and charities, helping rebuild these communities and bring some peace to the ones who lost all at a blink of an eye..Leer mais

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wildfire in Portugal became out of control due to unnatural Eucalyptus

@valth

The eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus globulus) were planted in Portugal as far back as 1866, where an estimated 35,000 plants were planted. The original intent was to prevent erosion, but this did not work out well, but the eucalyptus trees turned out to be profitable to have for selling pulp to the paper industry, and Portugal continued to keep planting these foreign trees.

The eucalyptus tree industry kept going into modern time, despite objections from environmentalists. The Portuguese government said they wanted to go back to using native trees for their lumber, but despite this no real efforts have been made. At this point everyone knew of the flammability of eucalyptus, as well as all the ecological damage it was doing, but being greedy was most likely what stopped anyone from taking action. The income from the eucalyptus products were needed, and they kept having them despite all the problems. Leer mais

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Luis Davila. O Bichero

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Incêndio em Portugal: temperaturas elevadas ameaçam o esforço de combate a incêndios

@revelim

The eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus globulus) were planted in Portugal as far back as 1866, where an estimated 35,000 plants were planted. The original intent was to prevent erosion, but this did not work out well, but the eucalyptus trees turned out to be profitable to have for selling pulp to the paper industry, and Portugal continued to keep planting these foreign trees.

The eucalyptus tree industry kept going into modern time, despite objections from environmentalists. The Portuguese government said they wanted to go back to using native trees for their lumber, but despite this no real efforts have been made. At this point everyone knew of the flammability of eucalyptus, as well as all the ecological damage it was doing, but being greedy was most likely what stopped anyone from taking action. The income from the eucalyptus products were needed, and they kept having them despite all the problems. Leer mais

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Portugal's greatest forest fire tragedy

@liliana.duarte

A massive wildfire raging in Pedrogao Grande (a rural area about 90 miles northeast of Lisbon) trapped drivers, killing at least 62 people.
Portugal is in 3-day National mourning and Portuguese people are in deep grief, we never faced anything like this before.

Facts:

• A lightning strike was believed to have started the fire. At least investigators found a tree that was hit during a "dry thunderstorm," the head of the national judicial police said;
• The fire began at 2.43 on Saturday afternoon, “spreading rapidly”;
• It killed at least 62 people as they desperately tried to flee. Thirty people died inside their cars as they tried to flee between the towns of Figueiró dos Vinhos and Castanheira de Pera, 17 others died right outside their cars or by the road, 11 people died in the forest, two people died in a car accident related to the fire and information was missing on the other deaths;
• Raging in the mountainous, since Saturday (June 17), the fire is still running and 950 operatives (soldiers and firefighters), helped by 300 vehicles and airplanes,​ struggles​ to put out the blaze;
• Temperatures throughout the country remain extremely high, with fires breaking out up in almost every borough.
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Luis Davila. O Bichero

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58 Killed, Dozens Injured in Portugal Wildfires

@top-one

(AVELAR, Portugal) — Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 58 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what the prime minister on Sunday called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years."
Nearly 60 other people were injured, including four firefighters and a seriously injured minor, Interior Ministry official Jorge Gomes told state broadcaster RTP.
A lightning strike is believed to have sparked the blaze in the Pedrogao Grande area after investigators found a tree that was hit during a "dry thunderstorm," the head of the national judicial police told Portuguese media.
Dry thunderstorms are frequent when falling water evaporates before reaching the ground because of high temperatures. Portugal, like most southern European countries, is prone to forest fires in the dry summer months.Leer mais

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Portugal fires: Canadair plane accidents while handling fire

/@sa1nt

A water-bombarding plane battling colossal timberland fires in focal Portugal has slammed, neighborhood authorities say.
They say the Canadair air ship went down close Pedrógão Grande. So far there has been no data about losses.Leer mais

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Morán

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Portugal devastated by forest fire

@andrewroberts

A devastating forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 62 lives, including four children Most died while trying to flee the Pedrógão Grande area, 50 km south-east of Coimbra, in their cars, according to the government. 30 bodies were found inside cars, with another 17 next to the vehicles, on one road leading on to the IC8 motorway.Leer mais

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Na percura de Alternativas

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The "cancer" of wild fires in Portugal

@kintar0

We just learned that the fires around "Pedrógão Grande" and "Góis" which started this past weekend (and are still burning!) have been classified as Europe's first natural firestorm! As we Portuguese people know very well, every single year we have a lot of problems with wild fires (I would say that for sure 99,9999999% of them are man-made! Every year there's been proved of that!)
A local ex-firefighter chief said he has never seen nothing like this one in 30 years of fire fighting! The proximate cause being given for the fire was a lightning strike during a thunderstorm without rain... but the real cause is no natural disaster at all. This was a 100% man-made accident waiting to happen (just as reminder, around 60+ people died, on a national road that goes trough the middle of the woods, due to this fire!)...Leer mais

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Referencias

Google Académico: Política florestal Portugal
Portugal wildfires: Why are they so deadly? -BBC News
Grupo Facebook: Eucaliptos NON

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