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The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by Tyrek »

xyst wrote: post #39
vondur wrote: post #32

The article mentions that these fires are all man made. I assume it's due to increase farmland or ranch land. Can't the Brazilian Government stop this, or is it quietly sanctioned by them?

Last I heard the largest export for Brazil is their meat. The largest producer of meat is in fact headquartered and based out of Brazil — JBS, SA. They are a very corrupt entity [1,2,3] and likely have many Brazilian politicians in their pocket/on payroll. The list of controversies this company has would put Goldman Sachs to shame [4]. So it would not surprise me if the government was blind to the destruction of Amaz…

And how would this transfer take place? With Aircraft carriers and a naval invasion? Are we setting up for Falklands v2.0?

Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by NikkiA »

trogsworth wrote: post #24
rootusrootus wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems like such an easy thing to fix, though. The land a listed building is sitting on should be zoned only for the listed building. If it burns down, it gets rebuilt exactly, or donated to the public. Allowing developers to benefit from such "accidents" is the problem.

This, at least sometimes, happens: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68...

Largely because it was reported so widely and was obvious what had happened.

Where I live a listed church mysteriously burnt down the night after planning permission to turn it into a hotel was declined.

Oddly it's just sat there as a burnt out husk for the last 15 years, rather than the developer forcing the issue.

Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by [deleted] »

hnal943 wrote: post #40
throwaway5752 wrote: post #22

Madison WI hit a new February all time temperature record. It was the average June temperature. They warned forever that after the ocean and glaciers absorbed a certain amount of excess heat that air temperatures would hockey-stick. I was hoping I wouldn't live through it.

of course today in Madison the high is 15°F

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Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by DANmode »

QuarterReptile wrote: post #42
DANmode wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start doing things like this, you just might shake enough of the BS money out of the real estate markets to return to sanity.

You propose to make the real estate markets work better by further restricting supply?

Restricting illegal profit-taking, where possible.

Black money inflates markets. Inflated markets inflate other markets.

Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by rcstank »

rootusrootus wrote: post #23
smcl wrote: post #19

Interesting that this kind of problem exists elsewhere. What happens in the UK is a developer buys a "listed" building - meaning it has a special status that means you need to preserve it and cannot knock it and down then, say, build a bunch of flats or offices on the same location. These buildings have a very unfortunate tendency to burn down overnight, leaving said developers with little option but to build apartme…

That seems like such an easy thing to fix, though. The land a listed building is sitting on should be zoned only for the listed building. If it burns down, it gets rebuilt exactly, or donated to the public. Allowing developers to benefit from such "accidents" is the problem.

This opens up forms of other abuse.

Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by matheusmoreira »

vondur wrote: post #32

The article mentions that these fires are all man made. I assume it's due to increase farmland or ranch land. Can't the Brazilian Government stop this, or is it quietly sanctioned by them?

> Can't the Brazilian Government stop this

They're too busy for that. They have far more important things to do like persecuting the previous president and implementing censorship and helping out their fellow communist dictators with brazilian taxpayer money.

Re: The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

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Post by matheusmoreira »

Tyrek wrote: post #51
xyst wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I heard the largest export for Brazil is their meat. The largest producer of meat is in fact headquartered and based out of Brazil — JBS, SA. They are a very corrupt entity [1,2,3] and likely have many Brazilian politicians in their pocket/on payroll. The list of controversies this company has would put Goldman Sachs to shame [4]. So it would not surprise me if the government was blind to the destruction of Amaz…

And how would this transfer take place? With Aircraft carriers and a naval invasion? Are we setting up for Falklands v2.0?

> And how would this transfer take place? With Aircraft carriers and a naval invasion?

Can I make a wishlist?

> Are we setting up for Falklands v2.0?

Somehow I doubt that.

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