Amazon could be opened to even more destruction
Brazilian Congress is under the serious influence by the agribusiness sector, that much is clear. They are currently trying to change legislation that would open even more of the Amazon to be cleared. If losing the forest in the areas that will no longer be protected isn't bad enough, the clearing and burning of these lands will release millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere—making the impacts of climate change even worse.
The region has already lost almost 18% of the forest cover in the last 40 years. In theory, the change being discussed by the Brazilian Congress would immediately apply to 36% of the Amazon in the hands of the private sector.
Join me in telling the Brazilian Congress to reject this project.
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It is obvious to everybody but to the most ignorant that our leaders are completely oblivious to the needs of this world.They are jeopardizing our present and the future of our descendants. Most believe that it is the consumer who has their say on what should be done but the grim reality teaches us that with clever ploys and media manipulation anything can be foisted on an unsuspecting population.We are running out of time and our patience is wearing thinner with each second that is ticking by without any headway in the way our planet is being protected.Corporate greed seems to be stronger than the will of the world's population.We are beyond hope.Even as I say that we are beyond hope my rational mind tells me that humanity will continue to survive in spite of these tyrants that are destroying the Earth the only inhabitable planet we know of.
Posted by: tomescu teofan emilian | November 23, 2008 10:45 AM
Are we suffering from the illness, amnesia, that is resulting in our forgetfulness with regard to the value of the Earth and its environs? Or have we been mesmerized by a Tower of Babel? Or both?
Perhaps we are forever forgetting about Earth and its environment because too many people, especially the economic powerbrokers, their bought-and-paid-for politicians and their minions in the mainstream media, are worshipping a “totem”. At least to me, there appear to be many too many people for whom the economy, in and of itself, is the primary object of their idolatry. This behavior is observable, obvious and flagrant. In many instances, these worshippers make what they evidently believe are rational arguments that suggest manmade financial and economic systems are somehow essential to, and an integral part of, God’s Creation; that indicate the growth of the global economy will occur from now on, even after the Creation is ravaged and its frangible climate destabilized by unbridled overproduction, unchecked overconsumption and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species. Aside from the “Economic Colossus” nothing matters to them.
Today, it appears that the financial system of the economic powerbrokers is collapsing like a “house of cards” and the real economy of the family of humanity is threatened. Experts in political economy are saying internally inconsistent and contradictory things. Communications about financials and the economy are generally confused and in disarray. Confidence and trust in the operating systems of finance and the global economy have been undermined by the invention of dodgy financial instruments and unsustainable business models as well as by the promulgation of con games and Ponzi schemes. Transparency, accountability and honesty in business activities have been largely vanquished. A great economic system is being undone by con artists, gamblers and cheats. In such circumstances, does the manmade colossus we call the global political economy remind you in some ways of a modern Tower of Babel?
Sincerely,
Steve
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176
Posted by: Steven Earl Salmony | December 3, 2008 8:01 PM