In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall
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#2We seem determined to undermine all attempts to save ourselves. It makes me very depressed sometimes, when striving to be better as an individual, to see things like this happening. I truly do worry we don’t have a lot of time left.
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#3Things like this strike fear in my heart and make me feel helpless to prevent our species from dismantling our ecosystem until it can no longer support us.
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#4“The Amazon is ours, not yours,” he told a European journalist.
I wonder if there's a scenario somewhere, already worked out, where this is not true anymore. A military takeover of the amazon basin.
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#5The other day there was a thread on HN where most people agreed that Amazon should pay France more taxes because even though it’s an internet business, it benefits from things done by the French government.
Maybe developed countries should start paying a tax to Brazil and other Amazon forest countries so that they can preserve it. After all, most didn’t do a good job preserving their own forests, so demanding underdeveloped countries to do it is somewhat hypocritical.
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#6The other day there was a thread on HN where most people agreed that Amazon should pay France more taxes because even though it’s an internet business, it benefits from things done by the French government. Maybe developed countries should start paying a tax to Brazil and other Amazon forest countries so that they can preserve it. After all, most didn’t do a good job preserving their own forests, so demanding underde…
This ^^! Most people do not appreciate what truly being poor is like. If the choice is development or preserving the rainforest, Brazilians deserve the right to choose for themselves
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#7The other day there was a thread on HN where most people agreed that Amazon should pay France more taxes because even though it’s an internet business, it benefits from things done by the French government. Maybe developed countries should start paying a tax to Brazil and other Amazon forest countries so that they can preserve it. After all, most didn’t do a good job preserving their own forests, so demanding underde…
At least Norway does:
"Norway makes annual payments to Brazil as part of a long-term billion-dollar program to curb the loss of Amazon rainforest to slow global warming."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-brazil-amazon-idUS...
Re: In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall
#8We seem determined to undermine all attempts to save ourselves. It makes me very depressed sometimes, when striving to be better as an individual, to see things like this happening. I truly do worry we don’t have a lot of time left.
Just switch your allegiance to the Planet instead of the Race.
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#9Apparently it’s not just the forests that are an obstacle to growth.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/amazon-gold-mi...
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#10Bolsonaro is only doing that in order to spite the left.
If leftists took the public position of wanting to destroy the Amazon he would be doing everything in his power to preserve it.
That's the world we live in today.