The economic crisis generated by the covid-19 should result in a retraction of 5% to 10% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which in 2019 was US $ 87 trillion.
This reduction in global economic activity - from the order of $ 5 trillion to $ 10 trillion. This is equivalent to a loss of three to five times Brazil's GDP, the ninth largest in the world, estimated at US $ 1,8 trillion. What will result in an unemployment crisis that is certainly unparalleled in the post-World War II world ”.
Thinking about this issue and the future of Brazil and the post-pandemic world, scientists from several Brazilian institutions have pointed out the directions they believe the world will need to take to recover from this crisis.
According to the group, the solution will require the construction of new routes for economic development. These routes must be based on valuing and valuing biodiversity and the services provided by nature (ecosystems), such as water supply and climate regulation.
The large-scale production of food, textile fibers and wood, among other items, along the current route, has had a direct impact on the expansion of agricultural cultivation and pasture areas to natural areas in Brazilian biomes, such as the Amazon.
In order to slow down the loss of natural areas, minimize climate change and favor sustainable development in the long run, it will be necessary to promote changes in public policies, consumption patterns and invest in new models of agricultural production that conserve biodiversity and services ecosystems.
In addition, it will be necessary to develop industrial production systems that operate with a circular economy logic, avoiding environmental pollution; invest in the production of renewable energy, basic sanitation and effluent treatment, in order to avoid pollution of water bodies; and valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services in economic processes, pointed out Seixas.
Good governance is needed
According to Bráulio Dias, professor at the University of Brasilia (UnB) and former secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB), the advances in science in recent decades have allowed the development of solutions to reverse the process of loss of global biodiversity.
What is needed is good governance, which ensures compliance with environmental laws, the functioning of institutions aimed at preserving the environment and making decisions based on reason and science, he said.
“Unfortunately, today, in Brazil, for example, we are seeing a dismantling of environmental institutions and policies and an attempt to subvert and reverse legislation, without listening to the arguments of reason and science. Obviously, this behavior will result in great collective losses, for Brazilian society and for the world, especially since the country is the holder of the greatest biodiversity in the world, ”evaluated Dias.
Source: Tecnologic innovation
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