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My name is Marilda. I'm an activist and geographer participating in a movement that struggles against this development model, monoculture, industrial, exporting. Brazil is a victim of this world policy in which G8 represents the countries leading this logic. And what I have to say is that the speeches that come out of G8 regarding measures against poverty, environmental measures related to climate, the issue of the carbon market… we here understand that as a big hypocrisy. Because what causes poverty, what causes environmental and socio-environmental damage is exactly this developmental model, the logic of production, the consuming logic of the capitalist society. What is ending poverty for the G8? If their actions are fundamentally aiming at appropriating land mainly from poor countries, adapting these territories in an transnational organization, with their governments saying “Yes!