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Brazil votes to reduce rainforest by 40%? ........fueled by slavery?

flavio

flavio

Diamond Member
I got this email below the other day:

. The area to
be
deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used
for
agriculture and pastures for livestock. All the wood is to be sold to
international markets in the form of wood chips, by large
multinational
companies. The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless
without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region
is
prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 square
kilometers
deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and in the process of
becoming deserts. Deforestation and the subsequent processing of the
wood
chips) on this scale will also release huge amounts of carbon which is
current locked up in the wood) back into the atmosphere worsening the
problem of climate change. We just cannot let this happen. Please copy
the...blah blah blah


I did some searches to try and verify the email and came up with
this story. and some other proposals which make it look like Brazil has been trying to get rid of their rainforest for awhile.

I also found this article claiming that the deforestation is fueled by slavery.

Anyone know anything about this?
 
In 100 years Brazil will look like the Sahara Desert, everybody will be using camels for transportation and they will find the world's largest ever oil reserves under what used to be a rain forest. And the vast majority of people who live there will still be dirt poor.

Life goes on.
 
Does anyone remember the Dust bowl In the US during the early part of the 20th century? America made her share of mistakes with the enviroment, let brazil make her mistakes. i find it amazing how the Earth is alway soo much more resilient than people give it credit for.
 


<< If environmentalists really cared, they would out bid the other side. >>



If they only had the money. It's hard to raise a billion dollars to spend on a rain forest that you will then be responsible for protecting, while being guaranteed to never make any money on it. But if you have plans to make big bucks off of it, it's easy to get investors.
 


<< Good. If it doesn't beep, feed you, flash or talk comprehensibly, kill it.


😉 >>



If trees could scream would we be so cavaler about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time for no reason.
 


<< If trees could scream would we be so cavaler about cutting them down? >>




.....if it makes un-necessary noise....kill it.


😉 😀
 
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It's Brazil's land. They can do what they want with it. Why do environmentalist always think that they run the world and everyone should stop and listen whenever they have something to say? I'm not saying the we should cut the rainforest down, but just like I have no right to tell you what you can do with your property (assuming you own a house), environmentalists can't tell Brazil what to do with their land. If they could, the world would be in chaos.
 
From an economic standpoint it is probably more long term profitable than cutting it down. The biodiversity in such an area is incredible and will very valuable to science. Not sure how big tourism is. The agricultural land won't be worth anything. THe problem with removing the trees is that is where all the ecosystems nutrients are stored. so you remove the plantlife you remove the nutrients. Sad really that a country is forced to destroy something so important because of the need for money.
 
What a bunch of BS. Do you really believe these investors cuttin down the forest are gonna get rich off of all those wood chips??? Mahogany wood is much better suited for luxurious furniture.
 
Sounds to me like another Afghanistan in the making. Afghanistan used to be lush rainforest, 'till they chopped it all down over the years.
 
I can't beleive they'd sell the wood as wood chips. Who buys wood chips? The wood is worth a LOT more whole than it is chipped up. You can build a house out of logs... not chips.
 


<< I can't beleive they'd sell the wood as wood chips. Who buys wood chips? The wood is worth a LOT more whole than it is chipped up. You can build a house out of logs... not chips. >>



If I'm not mistaken, certain types of rainforest trees are no good as lumber - too slender and soft?

If they cut down the trees, the soil is going to be come worthless. There is a lichen that grows on the trees that converts usable nitrogen for other plants. Only the top inch or so of the topsoil has any valuable nutrients, once they turn it into farmland the soil is useless.
 
While I'm not exactly an enviro Nazi I find this to be disturbing........that rainforest acts as a HUGE oxygen replinisher for the Earth....
 


<< While I'm not exactly an enviro Nazi I find this to be disturbing........that rainforest acts as a HUGE oxygen replinisher for the Earth.... >>



Perhaps THE largest.

Not gonna say it..

Not gonna say it..

IDIOTS

Damn- said it. 😛
 


<< If they cut down the trees, the soil is going to be come worthless. There is a lichen that grows on the trees that converts usable nitrogen for other plants. Only the top inch or so of the topsoil has any valuable nutrients, once they turn it into farmland the soil is useless. >>



So any economical gains are going to be very short-lived correct?
 
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