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Hardly any mainstream media news on this. Seems the damage these are causing is fairly horrific. 

 

Lungs of the planet being destroyed and yet no outcry. 

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5 minutes ago, AlimOzturk said:

Hardly any mainstream media news on this. Seems the damage these are causing is fairly horrific. 

 

Lungs of the planet being destroyed and yet no outcry. 

Palm oil companies or beef producers probably started it ☹️

(I’m not even joking). 

 

Edit: Seems the NGO’s are getting fingers pointed at them...

 

 

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Govt declares intention to clear the forest for mining and logging.

Relaxes environmental laws.

Forest gets cut down and burned at record pace.

Government blames NGOs.

 

:vrface:

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Probably because most people now are wondering what a rainforest is and why amazon are selling them. 

 

An 84% increase on last year apparently. 

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a poor developing country needs land to raise its GDP by exporting.

MOst of its land is covered by rainforest the wealthy are not willing to pay to protect.

growing population needs more food and money.

It was utterly inevitable.

To develop Brazil needs its resources liquidated- as the UK and most of Europe did by deforestation/mining/ oil extraction and now fracking.

Brazil are merely playing catchup with us- we hacked down all our ancient forests centuries ago to produce farm land, emptied our seas and laid waste to our environment- causing extinction to many of our own species, but are now asking Brazilians to stay in poverty?

 

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10 hours ago, AlimOzturk said:

Hardly any mainstream media news on this. Seems the damage these are causing is fairly horrific. 

 

Lungs of the planet being destroyed and yet no outcry. 

 

It featured in a Sky News Hotspots report just last week and Sky News has been reporting on the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest for the last few years now as well.  One of the most dangerous places on earth for a journalist to go, due to so many who end up dead or missing.

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1 hour ago, doctor jambo said:

a poor developing country needs land to raise its GDP by exporting.

MOst of its land is covered by rainforest the wealthy are not willing to pay to protect.

growing population needs more food and money.

It was utterly inevitable.

To develop Brazil needs its resources liquidated- as the UK and most of Europe did by deforestation/mining/ oil extraction and now fracking.

Brazil are merely playing catchup with us- we hacked down all our ancient forests centuries ago to produce farm land, emptied our seas and laid waste to our environment- causing extinction to many of our own species, but are now asking Brazilians to stay in poverty?

 

Yeah agreed. 

Its like us yelling developing countries not to burn fossil fuels when we’ve been doing it for 200 years. 

It’s why there’s just no saving the planet imo. It’s ****ed. We’re ****ed. 

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All roads lead to Gorgie

With climate change much of Brazil will become an arid desert anyway. The forest itself causes the warm damp climate, when that goes then rain cloud formation will stop. 

The world is being run by short term thinking idiots right now and Brazil seems to have one of the biggest idiots in charge.

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doctor jambo
1 hour ago, jack D and coke said:

Yeah agreed. 

Its like us yelling developing countries not to burn fossil fuels when we’ve been doing it for 200 years. 

It’s why there’s just no saving the planet imo. It’s ****ed. We’re ****ed. 

Quite, we hacked down the ancient oaks/yews/pines and gored the crap  out our country to fuel our "development" .

Half our country has miles of coal mines beneath the surface.

We have near emptied the north sea and are now fracking what we can to keep things going, then screaming at developing countries not to do the same.

Now we are pretty balanced and our population explosion is over in Europe, all the birth drivers are in Asia and Africa where they now need to do what we did, and we are trying to stop them doing it.

The difficulty is that until they are fully developed their birth rates will remain high, yet we are trying to trap them as developing and poor.

Its either technology will dig us out this, or it wont.

And if it doesn't we are in a real bind

We need MASSIVE carbon capture investment

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All roads lead to Gorgie

As well as industrial carbon capture the world has to plant billions of trees and protect peatland and tundra which naturally captures carbon. If the rain forest is being  lost the rest of the world has to make up for the loss by planting more. 

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Someone should wheel Cristo Redentor into the middle of it, and you’ll have a celebrity-driven social media bandwagon in no time. 

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On 22/08/2019 at 12:26, All roads lead to Gorgie said:

As well as industrial carbon capture the world has to plant billions of trees and protect peatland and tundra which naturally captures carbon. If the rain forest is being  lost the rest of the world has to make up for the loss by planting more. 

Good post.

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