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Desforestation in Brazil doubles, in anticipation of an amnesty for illegal logging
Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon, the world’s biggest rain forest, more than doubled last month as farmers become more confident they’ll be granted amnesty for illegal logging. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThat only makes us believe that what they really want is to profit and deceive the government. These farmers should be heavily fined by the government as an example for other farmers who start having the same stupid idea. Logging in this country has always been done in an illegal way and people (Chico Mendes and others) have been murdered because of such activities. I don't stop cutting trees just because there is a law that stops me from doing so: I do so because I know that hurts the environment and consequently human beings will be affected by such stupidity , I do so because I know future generations won't have enough air to breath, I do so because I attended school and I learned that nothing that is a living organism will survive without trees. But the worst is to know that there are people such as city councilors, governors and other crook politicians helping these people. The farmers are not the only ones to be blamed.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0FOR GOD'S SAKE, DILMA, GET A GRIP ON THINGS.
Jul 01st, 2011 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YOU RISK BECOMING THE PARIAH OF THE WORLD.
We ALL depend, one way or another, on the maintenence of these rainforests.
In nuclear terms, what Brasil is doing is equivalent to MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
Brasil is undertaking UAAD (Unilaterally Applied Assured Destruction).
Humbleman
Jul 01st, 2011 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You may stop cutting the rainforest for those reasons.
The one important point is YOU HAVE NO PROPERTY THERE.
The pastoralists and farmers do not, and will not, follow your reasoning. They will only stop in 2 cases
1 There are no more trees to cut.
2 The penalty for cutting those trees is higher than the money they make from the cleared land.
The second will NEVER happen in Brasil
O.M.G. it's the end of Brazil, we all are going to die...ohhhh. Right Geoff? I
Jul 01st, 2011 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cut off in mid-sentence, Fido . . . .?
Jul 01st, 2011 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OMG - it's not just Brasil!!
O.M.G. it's the end of the WORLD..right Geoff? moron.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fildo Dildo,
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0let's risk stimulating you a little.
But just the bit that you think with.
Think about the difference between the rainforest and the sertao. What's the big difference? That's right, one is wet and the other is dry!
There's another difference, one has trees and the other has scrub & cactus.
So . . . . removing trees causes wet land to go dry.
Now, if all the trees in Brasil are removed, do you think Brasil gets wetter or drier?
Is this 'a good thing'?
Now, if it happens to ALL the rain forests in the world (not a lot left) will the rains fall more or less?
Now, if human populations go up fast and rainfall goes down fast, will people get thirsty?
And do thirsty people die? I'll answer that one for you, Fido; yes they do.
If you have to pay the same for water as you do for oil, Fido, you may not die because you are in A Developed Country, but it may be the end of your world as you know it.
It would, indeed, be The End Of The World for millions, if not billions of people in the new sertao world.
Vergonhosa, a histeria dos usuários 1, 2 e 3. Vão aprender a escrever como adultos, isto é, sem exagero e gritaria farisaica.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Disgraceful hysterical exaggeration self-righteous screaming.'
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please add condescending . . . . sometimes the message needs simplifying for those practiced in the not-so-gentle ways of sarcasm.
Let me simplify it for you Geotard, you're a hysterical self-righteous dumb f### retarded clown with bad teeth, who constantly is being taken hard with a dildo by your wife.
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stop drinking tea you ugly brit.
Mmmm,
Jul 02nd, 2011 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0touched a sensitive spot did we, Finda Dildo?
:-)
I can tell the difference between sarcasm and theatrical desperation, Geoff, and your post number #2 fits the latter. And if that was indeed an attempt, a failed attempt, at sarcasm, you should refrain from others in the future. It's much more exhausting to read a person's message, specially when it expresses ideas opposed to ours, when they're put in that self-righteous, loud style.
Jul 04th, 2011 - 06:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Forgetit #12, you must read the thread more carefully:
Jul 04th, 2011 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Desperation- yes.
Dilma is doing nothing to stop in its tracks this acceleration of logging .
I have this first-hand & verbatim, last week, from a Chief of Police in west Para who is supposed to halt the logging, stop the money flow and arrest the perpetrators and the killers - activities being hamstrung by politics & the empresas madeireiras, police underfunding & understaffing, and resource diversion.
Sarcasm was Dildo's mode.
My condescending simplification for Dildo @ #7 remains the substantive and unrefuted posting - both by him and by you.
Kids behave !! Happy 4th ??
Jul 04th, 2011 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 046% of Americans don't know the year of Declaration of Independence.
26% Of Americans Don't Know U.S. Declared Independence From ......
Would that be independence from the native americans, the mexicans, the french or the british . . . ?
Jul 04th, 2011 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0. . . Oh, yes, I see the caps. - it would be Independence From The British! Hurrah!!
:-))
Jul 04th, 2011 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The loggers are the main problem - and the killers;
Jul 04th, 2011 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the police are culpable by their refusal to get involved.
Though I have this report in the original Portuguese, the link below is a fair translation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13943409
@Geoff
Jul 04th, 2011 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spare me from anecdotes that I won't believe. Do you one for each discussion you may engage in?
On the Amazon issue, I find the following article of interest. I hope your wife will translate you.
http://www.agenciaamazonia.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1008:o-codigo-florestal-e-a-quinta-coluna&catid=1:noticias&Itemid=704
Forgetit,
Jul 04th, 2011 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My condescending simplification for Dildo @ #7 is my substantive posting - it is unrefuted both by him and by you.
As for 'anecdotes' - when you reach my age you will have many references to personal experience available to you and many interesting people you will have met (eg #13).
If you globalise your career and your experiences you should never need to 'extend' truths to embelish anecdotes; I have never found any such need.
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” (Vadar, Episode IV).
“May the force be with you”.
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