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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon increased by a third over the past year
Deforestation in the Amazon increased by nearly a third over the past year, according to Brazilian government figures released this week, confirming a feared reversal in what had been steady progress over the past decade against destruction of the world's largest rainforest. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhat is it with these Brazilian “Ministers”? Are they really as stupid as they claim to be every time they open their mouths?
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The government's goal, Teixeira told a news conference in Brasilia, “is to eliminate illegal deforestation in the Amazon”. She should have gone on to complete the comment in line with the facts that: “but it’s OK when the government says it’s OK, and it’s OK, was that OK, Dilma?”
I think she must be taking lessons in lying from the Biggest Liar in Brazil: Mantega, the so called “Finance Minister” who knows nothing about finance.
Is she a relative of Dilma perchance, they look like sisters?
The world has lost forests the equivalent size of Argentina over the last 12 years.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudadanos/el-mundo-perdio-una-argentina-de-bosques-en-12-anos
Latam countries are the most irresponsible of the world guarding its forests
http://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudadanos/el-mundo-perdio-una-argentina-de-bosques-en-12-anos
It seems that in the last years deforestation has being decreasing, but that probably is because there is not much left to deforest by now … After Brazil eats up what’s left of the rain forest, Russia, the Scandinavian countries and Canada will have to start charging fees for maintaining the world’s supply of oxygen, and the Brazilians should pay the highest fees
Major environmental problems heading your way, Brazil, for short-term benefits.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Soon Brazil will be like birds , [naked ]
Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lolol
save the forest.
Brazil is a powerhouse and uses only half of the territory. When Amazon is incorporated, the world will be small.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With an economy stagnating my guess is that the government's priorities changed a bit and the trend was reversed.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brasileiro
Nov 17th, 2013 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you're not making any sense or a logical point. As usual. ...
'Izabella Teixeira, Brazil's environment minister ... said the overall trend was “positive.” '
Nov 17th, 2013 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Would that be negatively positive?
Unless there is significant forest planting going on in Brasilian Amazonia - *annual* planting at the rate of at least 1/4 of the size of Wales - then the overall rainforest destruction is absolutely negative every year.
The rainforest gets less and less each and every year.
What Brasil's Environment Minister might have said was that
the Rate of Change of deforestation is - statistically - slowing.
But the absolute amount of forest destruction is still massively - alarmingly - high.
A multi-layered rainforest canopy absorbs massively more CO2 than a crop ... and it binds it also.
This old wood is a carbon 'sink'; crops are not.
I guess the Environment Minister need to learn some basic 101 principles of biology.
Cost and benefit apply to ecology as well as economics ... for the next three hundred years Brasil needs to plant massively more forest than it harvests
Some hopes!
8 GeoffWard2
Nov 17th, 2013 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you have hit this on the head.
Some of the politicians need to be hit on the head and ones with scientific training appointed. It will never happen because these people would never fit in with the lies that politicians “have” to tell us.
8 GeoffWard2
Nov 17th, 2013 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed.
“Latam countries are the most irresponsible of the world guarding its forests”
Nov 18th, 2013 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is for this type of hypocrisy that the Europeans should be bombed to smithereens, every single last solitary lone one of them.
They are calling others “the most irreponsible” in GUARDING FORESTS.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
This from a continent in which in every single last solitary lone one nation, the forests were COMPLETELY HEWN CENTURIES AGO!!!!
This is the stuff of comedic olympics. Except it is about deadly serious stuff. These euros just don't get it don't they.
Of course that merits Russia, Scandinavia and Canada to run down the taiga just like Latam does to its rainforest
Nov 18th, 2013 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TTT #11
Nov 18th, 2013 - 05:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0just a couple of the very many sites that you can use to inform you:
http://www.fsl.orst.edu/nelda/nelc/index.html
http://www.fsl.orst.edu/nelda/nelc/index.html
See #8 for your solutions.
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