President Lula da Silva‘s Brazil isn’t totally off the hook for responsibility either. They need to stop the illegal logging and burning of the forest and make it unprofitable to have so many cows for beef.

So it will be a joint effort, not just for the wasteful gringos but all of them working together to solve the problems.

HALT! WHO GROWS THERE?
Posted on Nov 28, 2009

It doesn’t hurt to ask ex post facto. However, for
decades GE dumped toxic waste into the Hudson River ,
paid a token fine, & after a bogus gesture, the
Hudson River will remain forever a toxic GE legacy.

These MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE genocided indigenous
people to get what mineral wealth was to be had
before the extraction process, or during the mining,
as in West Virginia mountain topping, for which Bush
3 recently issued dozens of more permits.

It is indicative of the moving spirit of capitalism that it takes a sense of guilt to motivate corporations to cease policies and processes that devastate the environment.  In this case, their damage having already been done, they pay for it only when confronted with the damage later.  Like they didn’t know what they were doing beforehand?
Like they think they can kiss it with a few bucks and make it all well?  Disgusting, isn’t it?

Who can expect an honest, “liberty and justice for all” society to spring up out of such nastiness?