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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:35AM (#21711797)
Why is Brazil getting all the negativity? Bolivia has as big fires as Brazil despite being tiny. If you want to protect the Amazon you need to lobby your politicians to start some sort of tax for that in order to compensate Brazil its development plans. The western world has logged off theirs long time ago.
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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by tonyedgecombe on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:50AM (#21711871)
Why is Brazil getting all the negativity?

They aren't getting all the attention: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/opinion/bolivia-amazon-fi...

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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by Nasrudith on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:01AM (#21711918)
That is blatantly wrong - they have more forrest than they did centuries ago.

Second they are right to expect better of the 9th largest nominal GDP nation.

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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:26AM (#21712059)
What part of my statement was blatantly wrong?
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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by Nasrudith on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:57AM (#21722265)
That the west logged off all of their forests long ago - also implying that it was a precondition to their status.

Except that instead of forests instead of being cumulatively wiped away has grown as marginal agricultural land has been left utterly unused. That becomes blatantly wrong like saying Europe's population is lower now than it was in the past because of two world wars and the Spanish Flu. While the terrible things did happen the end status did not.

In all of the forestry cases they realized the major problems that would ensue if they ran out and shifted to sustainable models with replanting instead of virgin land. In Germany's case they started shockingly early in the 1500s after encountering wood shortages.

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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by tarruda on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:45AM (#21711838)
> Why is Brazil getting all the negativity?

Brazil's current president is a right-wing Trump-like politician, the type of which mainstream media loves to hate.

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Re:‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After ... by vo2maxer on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:08AM (#21711958)
Is the article factual and if not, can you quote some credible sources to dispute it? Is it merely a Bolsonaro hit piece or is it one among many worrisome factors contributing to climate change? I don’t think Maduro gets less hate in the mainstream media.
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