Hasta la vista, Gerardo: Morales received James Cameron, famous director of Titanic, Terminator and Avatar

2023-06-09 04:50:00

The famous film director James Cameron visited Jujuy and, together with the local governor, Gerardo Morales, traveled to Purmamarca to learn regarding renewable energy initiatives and lithium production. His arrival in Argentina is related to the holding of a forum, and he was no stranger to criticism of the native peoples of Jujuywho asked for his support.

Cameron, director of some of the highest grossing films in the history of Hollywood (like Avatar and Titanic), is an environmental activist, collaborator of the United Nations program once morest Climate Change, investor in sustainable companies and an international reference in the matter of regeneration of the oceans. This Thursday he was at the Cauchari photovoltaic park, the largest in Latin America, and got to know the solar thermal plants.

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Gerardo Morales, for his part, expressed that “caring for the environment must be a cause of humanity and the backbone of all government and human action. It is the axis that moves the world’s agenda.”

However, Indigenous communities of Cuenca Salinas Grande and Laguna de Guayatayoc they managed to get James Cameron to receive a letter informing regarding the consequences of lithium exploitation in Jujuy: “We are convinced that your credibility and notoriety will be used to legitimize projects that damage our culture, nature and our right to water,” they affirmed. and compared their land to the movie Avatar. “Jujuy is Pandora and is under threat from the greed of the mining industry”they stated.

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The successful filmmaker came to the country in order to participate in the Sustainable Development Forum “Sustentabilizando” organized by the Advanced Leadership Foundation and the Media Hub group. The forum began this Thursday and on Friday it will receive Cameron, who will be the main speaker, interviewed by the presenter Iván de Pineda. The opening of Sustentabilizando is scheduled for 3:00 p.m., with free admission with prior accreditation.

Passionate regarding sustainability, Cameron created the Avatar Alliance Foundation to work on issues of climate change, energy policy, deforestation, indigenous rights, ocean conservation, and ranching.

What Gerardo Morales said following his meeting with the highest grossing director in Hollywood

The governor of Juntos por el Cambio published a Twitter thread in which he appeared with the filmmaker and stated: “The fight once morest climate change is a commitment that we must assume throughout Argentina. We appreciate the visit of James Cameron, renowned film director and environmental activist, to our province. Jujuy is a great example in terms of sustainability”.

“Cameron wanted to know Jujuy and our public policies to take care of the planet,” said Morales

“In 2016 we launched the “Jujuy Verde” plan, with which we seek to transform the energy matrix through renewable energy projects, such as the Cauchari Solar Park, solid waste management and lithium extraction,” continued Morales.

Finally, the governor tweeted: “Cameron, UN ambassador in the fight once morest climate change, wanted to learn regarding Jujuy and our public policies to take care of the planet. Within the framework of the Sustainable Development Forum “Sustaining”, it was a pride to show how we take care of the environment”.

“Jujuy is Pandora”: the letter from the indigenous communities to James Cameron

Las Indigenous Communities of Cuenca Salinas Grande and Guayatayoc Lagoon they sent a letter to the film director where they requested that he not participate in the Sustainable Development Forum “Sustaining” or, failing that, that he give them a meeting “to tell him in first person what is happening, the B side of the lithium boom in Argentina”. Although that did not end up happening, they affirm that Cameron received the letter and is aware of what was raised.

In their statement, the original peoples appeal to the film director’s environmental vocation and propose a cross-sectional comparison with his highest-grossing films. “Jujuy is Pandora”, they stated, referring to Avatar.

“Sr. Cameron, with Avatar you have inspired us to revive the epic of resistance, the ethics of community and ecological solidarity, and retake the aesthetics of the struggle for life. For this reason, we ask you to show solidarity with our struggle, as you have done previously in the Amazonia and with so many causes where the local indigenous communities, the Davids of history, are encouraged to fight the Goliaths”, they said.

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“The looting and suppression of other cultures are part of the central axis of this compelling story. That, as you well know, happens in real life, surely it was inspired from there. AND Latin America is part of the extractivist model imposed on us colonially”, they analyzed.

Regarding lithium mining, they stated that “today it is disguised as a key need to achieve an energy transition” and that “has cruel and irreversible impacts on our communities”. In addition, they explained to the Canadian director that their lands are threatened “by a new form of colonialism that disguises itself as green: the large-scale production of batteries for the production of solar panels, electric cars and other innovations that, paradoxically, are today a boom in the race for the transition towards oil-free energy”.

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The towns concluded their letter to James Cameron by comparing the province to the world of Avatar: “Jujuy is Pandora, and is under threat from the greed of the mining industry, and we are the Na’vi. We hope that you, eventually the Jake Sully of this story, become our Tsyeyk te Suli and together we can fight for all that we love, both for this and the next generations.”

Finally, they attached the arguments to request that Cameron not participate in the Forum where he will be the keynote speaker, noting that have maintained their fight once morest the exploitation of lithium for 12 yearsand pointing out the volumes of water that it demands and the social conflicts that it arouses, by pushing the frontiers of extractivism on their communities and violating their Human Rights.

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