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Brazil abolishes huge Amazon rainforest preserve for mining and agriculture.

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A preserve set aside in the early eighties to help protect part of the virgin brazilian tropical rainforest and its indigenous people has been abolished. The preserve covers 18K square miles about twice the size of new jersey. We in the united states have protected lands like wildlife preserves, national parks & monuments that can never be mined, forested or open to commercial exploitation. That is unless congress and the president pass laws to remove those protections. And that's what disturbing as there has been talk of doing just that with this administration.

https://news.vice.com/story/brazil-...orest-to-mining-companies-and-big-agriculture

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the massive swath of vegetation that accounts for 10 percent of the world’s known species, is again under siege. Last year alone, over 3,000 square miles were deforested, and if Brazilian President Michel Temer gets his way, a host of new infrastructure projects — dams, man-made waterways, mines — will only accelerate the degradation.

Deforestation in Brazil is nothing new; since 1970, nearly 300,000 square miles have been destroyed. But the rate of deforestation had actually slowedfor much of the past decade, reflecting the “Save the Rainforest” initiative supported by countries around the world, including several countries that share the Amazon with Brazil, to reach zero net deforestation by the year 2020.

Now, however, the easing of environmental regulations in Brazil and the desire to combat the country’s brutal recession appear to once again be accelerating the demise of Brazil’s portion of the Amazon, known as Amazonia — deforestation rates were up 29 percent from the previous year. Low humidity caused by the loss of rainforest has already triggered record droughts in Brazil’s northeast. And scientists and environmentalists worry that the construction will not only have its own detrimental effects but also make way for more destructive projects in the world’s largest remaining rainforest, covering an area more than half the size of the contiguous United States.
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It's quite tragic what's happening with Amazonia but to reference the Trump administration when there's no connection to be found is just despicable.
 
FFFF said:
It's quite tragic what's happening with Amazonia but to reference the Trump administration when there's no connection to be found is just despicable.
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And it's "quite" tragic what's happening in the USA as the Trump administration seeks to do the exact same thing, To open vast areas of protected areas to mining, timber harvesting and other invasive activities.

The fact that you can't see the connection is truly despicable.
 
We, in the United States, have not protected our lands. We did the same thing that Brazil is doing now. The Earth is at about 15% of the forested levels it once, and now that we're experiencing climate change, the remaining forest is starting to experience high levels of stress and die-off. Even our beautiful redwoods are at ~2% of the forested levels they once were in 1850 before we starting leveling every one of them in sight. Ponderosa pines are dying off in droves due to beetle outbreaks (the long, hard winters used to keep the beetles in check, but we don't have those anymore). So in reality, we're the biggest bunch of hypocrites when it comes to forest management. Brazil is just copying what we did.

It should be a major, MAJOR warning to us that the ocean's coral reefs are bleaching.
 
Ventanni said:
We, in the United States, have not protected our lands. We did the same thing that Brazil is doing now. The Earth is at about 15% of the forested levels it once, and now that we're experiencing climate change, the remaining forest is starting to experience high levels of stress and die-off. Even our beautiful redwoods are at ~2% of the forested levels they once were in 1850 before we starting leveling every one of them in sight. Ponderosa pines are dying off in droves due to beetle outbreaks (the long, hard winters used to keep the beetles in check, but we don't have those anymore). So in reality, we're the biggest bunch of hypocrites when it comes to forest management. Brazil is just copying what we did.

It should be a major, MAJOR warning to us that the ocean's coral reefs are bleaching.
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Nobody cares. They will hate us in 300 years though. We will be seen as the worst crop of humans ever to exist.
 
FFFF said:
It's quite tragic what's happening with Amazonia but to reference the Trump administration when there's no connection to be found is just despicable.
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So it's tragic that Brazil is doing this to themselves and everyone else, but not tragic when Trump does this to us and everyone else.

OK.
 
zinfamous said:
So it's tragic that Brazil is doing this to themselves and everyone else, but not tragic when Trump does this to us and everyone else.

OK.
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Nice try putting words in my mouth, Trump hasn't been president long enough for his policies to have come into effect. But keep the irrational paranoia alive, man.
 
Ventanni said:
We, in the United States, have not protected our lands. We did the same thing that Brazil is doing now. The Earth is at about 15% of the forested levels it once, and now that we're experiencing climate change, the remaining forest is starting to experience high levels of stress and die-off. Even our beautiful redwoods are at ~2% of the forested levels they once were in 1850 before we starting leveling every one of them in sight. Ponderosa pines are dying off in droves due to beetle outbreaks (the long, hard winters used to keep the beetles in check, but we don't have those anymore). So in reality, we're the biggest bunch of hypocrites when it comes to forest management. Brazil is just copying what we did.

It should be a major, MAJOR warning to us that the ocean's coral reefs are bleaching.
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This. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think that outside of designated wilderness lands, the "highest and best" uses of federal land are still by law mining and lumbering. Still, losing 18k square miles of rain forest, that's gonna leave a mark.
 
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