Comments on: Amazon Selling for $50Bn, Brazilians Not Happy

By: Max Dobbratz

Max Dobbratz — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:06:26 +0000

Greetings from the Amazon. One thing that you need to understand that Brazilian school children are being taught that he British and the Americans claim the Amazon Rainforest and are planing to invade it just like they did Iraq. As a result, anti-Americanism is incredibly high in Brazil and especially the Amazon. This does not help world effort to save the Amazon Rainforest. What is needed here is agroecology. This is the only real solution. For more information on agroecology, check out the Agro-Ecology Organization.

By: Steve N. Lee

Steve N. Lee — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:59:12 +0000

The basic idea – to buy the Amazon – is sound.

Why shouldn’t we buy it to preserve it?

And why should anyone complain, even the local people?

Well, because we rarely do anything purely for the good deed that it could be anymore – we always want to know “what’s in it for me?”.

Look at those wonderful national parks in the U.S. which are currently suffering from pollution because the powers that be see dollar signs instead of an environment crying out for help.

But, if we could buy the Amazon, and, like some geek with an unopened Star Wars toy, protect it, treasure it, preserve it in pristine condition, FOREVER, then I’d dig in my pocket and chip in right this second!

Sadly, I don’t think I’ll need to be dipping into my wallet any time soon.

Steve N. Lee
author of eco-blog Lions led by Sheep – http://www.lionsledbysheep.com
and eco-suspense thriller ‘What if…?’

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:18:18 +0000

Brasil must prohibit that swedish albino from ever setting foot in our country.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:56:52 +0000

Thanks JW – we updated the mistake.

Chris

By: jw

jw — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:53:45 +0000

What would be the reaction of the British people if we returned 100 years ago and started talking of taking over their Island and mainly River Thames Vale from them due to the fact that they were completely polluting it, killing and destroyng it’s environment and fauna?

Also, the person who has written this article should be aware that we Brazilians have a president, not a prime minister: our system of government is called presidentialism and not parlamentarism, therefore we don’t have a prime minister.

Shame that people “in the name of the environment” put their greed eyes on other’s people resources… but be aware that we are not a nation which never gave even one milimiter of our territory to others… and we won’t do it!

By: Richard Trillo

Richard Trillo — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:27:31 +0000

This smacks of a political move to me, cooked up by sections of the Brazilian media, and brought on by the recent resignation of Brazil’s outspoken environment minister who was despairing of her inability to hold back the tide of greedy deforestation. This Times of India article (no byline?) makes the issue sound like a dubious neo-colonial plot, when in fact CoolEarth.org is all about preventing the wealth of the rainforest being lost into 1) the pockets of timber merchants and 2) the already overburdened and overheated atmosphere. Eliasch’s charity, co-headed by Frank Field MP (one of Gordon Brown’s most oustspoken critics – no surrogate government minister he), is completely above board, and thousands of people have paid money to secure forest on behalf of local people (it’s not owned by anyone outside Brazil) that would otherwise be lost to loggers.