Devastation Of The Rain Forests
"We know there will be problems in environmental terms, many serious
problems, but it is a matter of economics. There won't be any complete
disaster, and what we cannot solve, well, that's the price we have to pay."
- Eduardo Albuquerque Barbosa
There is a constant war that is being fought in the rainforests of
South America. The death toll is one that far surpasses any other war in
history. Vietnam and World War II had minimal loss of life compared to
this never-ending battle. It is predicted that by the year 2020, the
casualties will reach 150 per day. This total does not even include the
loss of human life due to the lack of oxygen and the horrible living
conditions. ...
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there is one acre less that we have for
possible life saving medicines. About 70 percent of plants used in anti-
cancer drug come are the rain forest. We are slowly destroying the
environment and ourselves. Whether we realize it or not, the world could
quickly come to an ecological stop. Every day 144,000 acres of the
rainforests are cut down, slashed and/or put up in flames. In 1974,
Brazil started a forest fire of 20.6 million square feet (3,900 square
miles). The fire ragged out of control and was later marked the largest
forest fire in Brazilian history. This 1974 fire is now considered small
to others in the past recent years. On average the burning season lasts up
to four months out of the whole year. During this period of time, it is
not unusual for most of South America to be covered in a thick blanket of
smoke. The bulk of these fires, when combined, are equivalent to the great
inferno of 1988 at Yellow Stone National Park. Emitted from these
devastating ...
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Until 1988 the astonishing figures produced
by environmentalists and scientists never had much weight for people of
countries outside of the Amazon Rain Forest. The death of Mendes was the
second death of a NCRT, National Council of Rubber Tappers, member in
recent times. The fight, " at first, was only about ecology, and defending
the fishes, the animals, the forest, and the river. They didn't realize
that Humans were also in the forest" Rodrigues, Revkin (1). Though Chico
was a rubber tapper in the town of Xapuri, he spent most of the year
traveling around the world trying to gain support in his fight against the
destruction of the rainforest. Chico's non-violent approach ...
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