THE SENTENCE

The Supreme Court of Nature came into session.

The rapporteur of the Prosecutor’s Office reads the charges:

"The seas and skies are dying polluted by man; forests report desertification; rivers report their disappearance, ice reports its melting, animal and plant species reveal their extinction. Humans have committed a huge genocide, thousands of species are disappearing and thousands of them had already disappeared”.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Nature calls the maximum penalty against this species...

The rapporteur of Defense has the word:

"Progress is not genocide, it is collateral damage. If we look at all that the human species has achieved, we will have to accept that it has been more beneficial than evil. Computers, airplanes, cars, large mega cities are a monument of creativity of life. We can travel faster than ever, there is no place on the planet forbidden to progress; the creative hand of man comes to the poles where there are cruise ships sailing in what used to be ancient ice.

This year, we emerged from the crisis and we started again the path of economic growth.

We conclude that, what human has created -from the pyramids, to the twin towers- justify that some species disappear, or the sea and sky get a bit dirty”.

The Court deliberates and produces the sentence, the faces were grim, mournful, and they were ready to read it when the voice of an old man stopped and asks to be heard.

The discussion takes several minutes, but given the finality of the judgment, it was decided to let the old-bearded-man talk:

“I have dedicated my entire life to the defense and recovery of this unique species in the world. It does not have a certain condition, the human condition depends on how it is organized, it is able to create idols and surrender to their feet. The accusations of this Court are heard as true, we become a genocide species; dangerous ... we deserve the punishment of extinction that surely contains the sentence.

However, this species deserves an opportunity, it is true, it gathers all the bad things that the Prosecutor’s Office has said, and it has shown its arrogance and pedantry on the absurd arguments of the defense. But, it is also true that this is species victim of a monster: capitalism, which is the real culprit, the one who turned the species into a plague.

We respectfully request, in honor to an entire history of struggles against the monster, (do not forget that years ago we denounced in Rio de Janeiro the threat of extinction of this species;, we ask to give to men of good will a chance, and that the sentence is postponed for few years, we promise to build a world where nature is respected, a socialist world”.

We do not know the outcome of the meeting, sometimes it seems that they granted the extension, and sometimes not. Will the Court be waiting for our behavior?

With Chavez!