I am of course so surprised by all these meetings. These small meetings for just eight countries who will decide for all of us. We can not accept this. Even if they invited out President Lula – he's not able to make the decisions. All these social inequalities in the whole world will not be resolved just by these small meetings. Just these few peoples. These specialists decide for us? Well there are so many people, so many different realities that you can not resolve for us.
You can not see what is really happening here. Like here in our country, Brazil, And even Lula is not able to decide and make a difference in our reality. So we want social justice, environmental justice because we see things are just getting worse and worse with these meetings and specialists. The world is not made by specialists. There are people in the country. There are people in the lands who know what they want and you do not hear them. And that's the important thing, to hear those people's ideas. Because the world is not made up of just eight countries, like the G8.
Daniella Meireles is an activist in environmental NGO FASE-ES, Brazil and is part of the Green Desert Movement.