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Headlines : EnvironmentLula to help destroy deep Amazon
Socialists and capitalists share humanist utilitarianism in their worldview cores. If cutting the last old growth sections will raise some of his loggers up the economic scale a notch, (and big wood, firstly) Lula will come up with a plan. Here it is: goodbye Amazon, goodbye tribes, and goodbye water. We are assured the companies will pay royalties. Pay to whom, our Mother Earth and our displaced native brethren? Thanks Lula.
[Posted By johnnycivil]Republished from NYT
REALIDADE, Brazil — A Brazilian government plan set to go into effect this year will bring large-scale logging deep into the heart of the Amazon rain forest for the first time, in a calculated gamble that new monitoring efforts can offset any danger of increased devastation.
The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in an attempt to create Brazil’s first coherent, effective forest policy, is to begin auctioning off timber rights to large tracts of the rain forest. The winning bidders will not have title to the land or the right to exploit resources other than timber, and the government says they will be closely monitored and will pay a royalty on their activities.
Posted by johnnycivil
fight 'till you collapse
then get down
then get up
Socialists and capitalists share humanist utilitarianism in their worldview cores.
FYI Brazil is not a socialist state. It might also be said that a true socialist society cannot exist in a capitalist world.
My initial reaction was “Wow. The New York Times is PISSED“. Because :
Brazil’s president has [just] unveiled an investment programme, totalling $240 billion, to boost the economy by 2008, tackling both the public and private sectors.
“The challenge now is to accelerate economic growth,” Lula da Silva said on Tuesday.
The plan for Silva’s second four-year presidential term calls for the funds to be spent on repairing and building highways, boosting electric power generation, expanding ports and airports and providing housing and water and sewage service for poor Brazilians.
About $32.4 billion would be provided by the government and the rest would come from state-controlled companies and private sector, but Silva’s government will also seek legislation to give businesses big tax breaks for participating in the projects.
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housing and water and sewage for poor Brazilians but also . . . JOBS.
You go Lula ! You know you’re on the right track when you piss off the Right people. Aren’t they so catty?
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No WAIT. That headline’s johnnycivil’s. The NYT’s is : Brazil Gambles on Monitoring of Amazon Loggers. Interesting. . . very passionate, johnnyc — where that’s coming from?
OPEN QUOTE (from they NYT’s piece, in case you don’t click through)
On paper and in principle, said Stephan Schwartzman, an Amazon specialist at Environmental Defense in Washington, I think everyone agrees that this system is an improvement over the current situation, which is totally out of control.
This is a battle Brazil has to win, he added.There’s only one way to save the forest, and that is by using it, responsibly and rationally.
This is a battle Brazil has to win, he added.There’s only one way to save the forest, and that is by using it, responsibly and rationally.
Save the forest by cutting a new road into untouched realms? Hey, Lula never ran on his green credentials, only red. I know Brasil is not socialist, but he is, and that is not per se bad, until you see his pragmatism in these sorts of actions.
I flew over the Amazon at night about five years ago… of all the horror I have seen on earth that was the worst. From half an hour south of Brasillia to two hours north of Brasillia (in a commercial jet) I saw over a hundred fires from a kilometer to five k strips of burning in the darkness just from the left side of the plane. It is out of control and this is not the answer. Just because Lula is okay should not give him a pass but more pressure!
oh, and i thought the times title was dull and innacurate as it does not mention or imply the news aspect, which is the new road.
shit. I decided I wanted to save the article to my personal archives (and reread it in light of your comments) and the NYT makes you pay the next day.
The destruction of the rainforests is definitely a serious problem. Any chance we could get you to blog a 101?
What a triage unit planet earth is.
what is blog a 101?