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| Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing |
| 2009-11-29 |
| Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" The casual racism of our southern neighbors is amazing. You get what you tolerate. should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. It's his rain forest. He can cut it down if he wants to. When he doesn't have it that'll be tough spit. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments just before an Amazon summit in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt the deforestation that causes global warming. Norway is making payments to give Brazil $1 billion by 2015 to preserve the Amazon rain forest, as long as Latin America's largest nation keeps trying to stop deforestation. The nation was the first to supply cash to an Amazon preservation fund Brazilian officials hope will raise US$21 billion to protect nature reserves, to persuade loggers and farmers to stop destroying trees and to finance scientific and technological projects. Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc has said Japan, Lula doesn't discriminate when it comes to green. Sweden, Germany, South Korea and Switzerland are considering donating to the fund. Here's my contribution: a match. Go wild LBFM. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 Protection money racket for trees, ya say? That's a new one. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-11-29 23:17 |