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 Brazil Scrambles to Respond to Spike in DeforestationPosted on May 20, 2011
Following a period that saw “the lowest level of deforestation in the history of Amazonia,” Brazilian plant life and all things dependent upon it met a sudden reversal of fortune when slash-and-burn practices in the rain forest increased 27 percent over the past winter. The Brazilian government has convened a “crisis cabinet” and sent hundreds of protection officers to investigate and enforce environmental law. Environmentalists blame the deforestation surge, measuring 244 square miles, on recent changes in rules governing land use in the country’s forested regions that farmers are exploiting in order to produce crops such as soy for profit. —ARK
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By billylutz, May 21, 2011 at 9:46 am Link to this comment
Casting out of the Garden of Eden
ironically playing in reverse
don’t we know what a gift we have
is our thinking always so perverse
Guilt initially invented sin
to continue what we were doing
guilt is such a convenient device
makes salvation worth pursuing
When the environment starts to make us sick
when food accelerates our slow death
when masks of life our sweet companion
are slaughtered for their commercial heft
Children of God we call ourselves
how dare to speak such blasphemy
expound the glories at heaven’s gate
while trampling the entire periphery
Such a nefarious act of vengeful neglect
Report thisthe hypocrite’s pious homage to the Lord
take care what god we trash in his service
it is Eden Herself who draws the sword
By prisnersdilema, May 20, 2011 at 12:40 pm Link to this comment
By the time the last tree is pushed down by a bulldozer, and the last acre is burned. Acres that would have been used to grow Orange Juice, Cattle or Cocaine, civilization will be gone as well.
For those of you who don’t know already, we need those forests to produce oxygen, because we’re also killing the plankton, the only other significant source of oxygen on the planet. The oxygen in the Earths atmosphere is produced by plants, without them we will have nothing to breathe, and that of course means death.
That will be a bad day for the stock market, and all the pissing contests, and rationalizations, will not save us. Nor will Science or pleas to GOD…
When the winds come and start ripping the living hell out of this country, you will know that time is short…
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