Monday, June 29, 2009

It won't last forever... Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon forest is being reduced to ashes for years.
Even though the Brazilian senate has just approved a law that gives the right to companies and people that had invaded it years ago to legally explore more of this precious land. More than 190,271,143 acres will be affected by this new law (3 times the extension of the state of Sao Paulo, in Brazil).

The law is favorable for big and medium companies, which will purchase 88.5% of this land that used to be property of the government, according to estimatives of environmentalists. (Property of the government used to mean our property, it is nation’s land!)

It is though very clear why the Brazilian government has approved this absurd law in times that we should be finally evolving in this matter. Most of the governors, the people in charge of the country, are financed by these companies, or even own it.
Using the excuse that they want to organize the situation better in the Amazon, they are in reality working one more time to benefit themselves in exchange of the peoples’ and nation’s welfare.

This rotten Brazilian government can only think on how each one can selfishly profit, even by illegal acts (which are not a few) or by fooling the people’s that they so hardly work to keep uneducated.

But this kind of decision affects not only the country but the entire world.
At this rate of deforestation, the next generation will only be able to see the forest on the internet, books...

We are being selfish to our sons.

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