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« Here we go again! Another piece of Amazonian Forest as large as half Europe
will disappear within a few years. The people responsible for this crime are to be searched for not
only overseas. Besides the usual timber industry pirates and the greedy stockbreeders, we have really to
mention the dinner-jacket wearing financiers of the international organizations.
The amount of 30 thousand millions dollars was spent in the space of 5 years
on opening 10.000 kilometres of crumbling roads in the forest and building 3 thermoelectric power
stations that turned out to be criminal, giving the ratio between environmental impact and energy
demand met.
We can take for granted that the 70% of the existing virgin forest will be cut down
in the name of progress by the year 2020.
It is a fact that:
- To build a thermoelectric power station it is necessary to deforest and inundate an area as large as Italy.
- To open only the Trans-Amazonian road from Belem to Brasilia it has been necessary to cut down more
than half the age-old trees within a range of 100 kilometres from the road. Two thirds of the
deforestation activity affects the surroundings of the new roads so threatening thousands of
tropical animals and birds.
The spectre of "EL NIÑO" causes drought and increases fires.
The great "Fazendeiros" set fire to trees to get further pasture fields.
- To get 100 grams of hamburger meat (the equivalent for a sandwich) it is necessary to
deforest 5 square metres of virgin forest.
- 11 thousand millions of cattle emit during the digestion process a quantity
of methane causing a greenhouse effect which is 20 times more intense than
the one caused by the pollution produced by all the cars on the Earth.
The temperature is rising out of proportion. And nowadays a quarter of the world population
dyes owing to water pollution and scarceness.
The destiny of the clay feet giant has already been set: his
name is Cement and Asphalt. Full stop and new paragraph."»
(Text and photos extracted from the introduction to the book "Amazonas km 861".)
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