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Everything is incredible on the Amazon. It is a mega biodiverse region filled with thousands of species in eight countries and one territory, occupying over half of Brazil. Over 30 million people live in this biome, and the population is as diverse as the scenery throughout the rainforest. There is so much variety in the Amazon, full of life and power. And there are various temporal layers overlying the region.
Although, the future of the Amazon is uncertain. During the past five decades, the economic model has borne a rate of degradation much more significant than human activities were capable of recovering from up to now. The changes in the Amazonian ecosystems and in the climate are the most emblematic distortions of this model. They have changed how the forest controls its fluctuations, ranging from changes in the atmosphere to rivers polluted with mercury from illegal mining. Around 20% of the forest is degraded. In recent years, the increase in deforestation shocked South America and the world after years of greater government control. The Amazon is global and connected to other biomes and exerts an influence on Planet Earth. Due to climate change, we face a complex challenge towards the future of the forest and all those who live there or depend on its resources and water.
The in-depth knowledge constructed by the original population throughout thousands of years has inspired other traditional people who live in the forest. They coexist with the animals, recognize hundreds of species of trees, and notice the increasing levels of the rivers as years go by. They are on the front lines dealing with the climate emergency. We must learn from them and from the scientists who live there and are from the Amazon how to respect and regenerate the biomes. Carrying out research studies, producing solutions, and new assets based on the rich genetics of the region, with many endemic species.
We cannot wait one or two decades anymore. We need a new socioeconomic development model in the Amazon based on a three-prong policy: scientific knowledge, practices and know-how from the traditional population, and the commitment to preserve a living forest. We need to provide more education and opportunities for the Amazonians to innovate. We know what needs to be done, we have the tools to do that. The time to completely stop deforestation is now.
The future of the Amazon is also our future. Each one of us will prosper from a regenerated Amazon. A tree named Hope dwells there. Let it supply lots of fruit to everyone.
Leonardo Menezes, curator
Behind the scenes of the exhibition
Message from the curatorial committee
We love the Amazon as there are so many Amazons. The beautiful lives and so much diversity that are part of them. The magnificent beauties and uniqueness of its many landscapes. The wisdom and cultures of the peoples who inhabit them. It awakens in our spirit a giant nature that has resisted and still resists the destroying thrust of a time when we saw the forest as a storehouse of treasures yet to be discovered and ransacked, a jungle to be domesticated and disappeared.
We have learned we need the Amazon as it provides, to distant lands of Brazil, the water whereas life nowadays would be impossible without. As it protects the climate of the entire planet and has a rich and unique biodiversity, threatened by the sixth great extinction of life on the planet (this time caused by us, human beings). As it makes it possible for humanity to have the blessing of including in their soul the knowledge from indigenous peoples, river dwellers, Afro-Brazilian marooned communities, and people who left their former world and went to the forest to construct their lives, hopes, and souls in the Amazon. We are grateful to the Amazon for its lives and people, for the priceless blessing: the hope of continued greenery. It is the hope of a future where, based on the expansion of our consciousness, we choose to interrupt the destruction of the forest and its people. The hope of a union between science and traditional knowledge and the cooperation between the Amazonian peoples and the people in the rest of the world reaches the glorious achievement of sustainable development of the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The hope is this pathway will guide us to increase the well-being of the Amazonian people, Brazilian socioeconomic development, and planetary health.
The Museum of Tomorrow curatorial committee
Alexandre Fernandes – Innovation curator
Luana Génot – Public relations curator
Sérgio Besserman – Sustainability curator
Message from IDG board
The Amazon is the forest that challenges society while providing so many possibilities for the future. A home to thousands of fauna and flora species, many yet to be discovered, and an unparalleled ecosystem complexity. This forest is also the main responsible for maintaining the climate on the planet.
This global asset has been suffering increasing and constant threats in Brazil, such as fires, deforestation, and illegal mining. The debate on how science can drive a new sustainable and inclusive development model in the forest gains light in this scenario. We seek to emphasize the importance of combining traditional knowledge with innovations in technology and research as a way of boosting a green and regenerative economy with a low environmental impact and solutions that recover what has already been degraded.
What do we want Amazon to be like in the future? Which economic and social development model is the most sustainable for keeping the forest standing and providing the quality of life for all people living in that region?
These questions will be part of the narrative in the new temporary exhibit, produced by the Institute for Development and Management – IDG, which manages the Museum of Tomorrow. Through interactive and technological experiences, “Amazonian Times” seeks to bring you closer to the experiences of yesterday, today and tomorrow in the forest, connecting to the stories of the Amazonians: from the indigenous and riverside population to the urban population.
Enjoy the exhibit!
Ricardo Piquet, President of the Institute for Development and Management – IDG
Maria Garibaldi, Executive Director of Museum of Tomorrow
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The Museum of Tomorrow’s 2022 temporary exhibition, “Amazonian Times”, is now available in an incredible 360° virtual tour. You will be able to access much of the content and browse through all the rooms.
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