Highways open new South American trade routes http://tinyurl.com/64vuklx
A huge super highway linking Peru and Brazil is about to open up. However, I don't see this as a good thing. Like a colony of ants, or even worse.. a virus, we spread across this globe, raping and pillaging everything in our site. Global warming and climate change is upon us and, yet, we continue to gobble up the Earth's resources in our lust to make more money and have more things.
A bonified concern is addressed in the article: 'But environmentalists worry about increased logging and illegal gold mining.' Yep, there it is.. stupid humans continue to work their way towards self-destruction.
Oh, sure, it will definately bring benefits to the BIG corporations and even to the poor folk living along its path. However...
'ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS - But the road is not without its costs. It runs through some of the most pristine corners of the Amazon rainforest and could contribute to deforestation as planters and ranchers search for cheaper land.
In August, crackling fires set by farmers clearing brush carpeted parts of the Amazon basin with smoke.
The road has already enabled more wildcat gold miners to move to Peru's Madre de Dios region, where swaths of rainforest have been turned into deserts polluted by mercury.
In nearby boomtowns, shacks teem with bars, brothels, treasure-seekers from the highlands, and middlemen buying and selling gold. Peru is the world's No. 6 gold producer and about 10 per cent of its gold comes from Madre de Dios.
"The issue of mining is a monstrous one," said Luis Espinel of Conservation International in Lima, one of several groups trying to persuade miners to adopt new technologies that do not rely on mercury to separate gold from dirt.'
More devistation to the planet. I hope everyone who reads this understands that backing moves like this is basically telling your children and grandchildren, "To hell with you!" because we are damning the next generation (if not this one) to a horrendous end.
You think I'm just shootin' blanks?! The Amazon Rain Forest is one of the last "lungs" the planet has left and we are destroying it at an unprecedented rate. The weakening of the ozone layer already reduces our oxigen levels and here we are... killing the lungs of the planet.. all for a few more dollars in the pocket.
Selling our souls to the devil.. I say. What do you say? Think this is all BS, or are you happy with your head stuck in the sand?
Time will tell! And I'll be here to keep the info cranked out and let the REAL intellegent people make up their own minds based on the facts.
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