Sebastião Salgado feels at home when he is in Portugal and even confesses that after the Revolution of April 25 the couple pondered be living in the country. Therefore, during the time that was to explain Genesis made sure to carry the great ecological issues facing the distant parts of the earth to the national scene. Made the killer cutting trees in India to the absence of reforestation of the slopes of the Portuguese mountains. And do not fail to provoke the present with the question: “Who knows well the Portuguese mountains?”
What worries Sebastião Salgado in Genesis is the state of the planet Earth and about this situation your speech is but Sibylline also very violent. So much so that eventually assert against the human mismatch to the environment through the following: “We are aliens on our planet.” And will again seek the example of Portugal by pointing to a photograph of a glacier, where a kind of tower of a castle stands on ice training:. “When this piece of ice was so there was over a thousand years Comparing with 900 years of the history of Portugal is seen as nature has other time. “
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