Pearl Jam Environmentalist, demand sanctions for those responsible for ecocide in Brazil.

American alternative rock band (Grunge) formed in 1990, Pearl Jam demanded an exemplary punishment to those responsible for the dumping of sludge and mineral waste flooded seven villages Brazilians leaving dead and missing.

The request was realizadapor the lead singer, Eddie Vedder, in the middle of a concert that the group offered at Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais state in which was registered on November 5 serious environmental tragedy .

"Accidents blind rivers and destroy lives. And yet they manage to make money. We hope they are punished , " said the lead singer in a statement he made ​​in Portuguese for delirium of the nearly 42,000 people who attended the concert.

Vedder made a   strong speech against companies that pollute the environment, not to mention Samarco, the company responsible for the flood.

In this sense, the singer, who announced that the band had decided to donate to the victims of the environmental tragedy their part in the sale of tickets for the concert in Belo Horizonte.

The ecologist speech was delivered shortly before the group interpreted "Do the Evolution", a composition makes references to the damage caused by man in the name of evolution.

The tragedy was caused by the rupture of the levees of two water tanks and mineral waste from a mine in Samarco, whose dumping led to a flood of 62 million cubic meters of mud and mineral waste.