Parar a construção de barragem na Amazónia

[McCandless]

Isto é uma história que a mim me toca principalmente pelo carinho que tenho pelo Brasil e pelo que vejo que andam a fazer a este maravilhoso país para promover um crescimento completamente insustentável. É uma história macabra que, só sendo partilhada poderá fazer com que as pessoas se revoltem e mostrem o seu desagrado.
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Lets hope that this story travels the world . . .

The Amazon Rainforest is home to 60% of the Worlds remaining Tropical rain forests. Covering an area nearly the size of the continental United States - and its being Destroyed right NOW. The Natives will have to leave the land they have held Sacred for Thousands of years. And nothing but a whisper about this in the media; lets hope that changes soon . . .

"While newspapers and television talk about the lives of celebrities, the chief of the Kayapo tribe received the worst news of his life: Dilma, “The new president of Brazil, has given approval to build a huge hydroelectric plant (the third largest in the world). It is the death sentence for all the people near the river because the dam will flood 400,000 hectares of forest. More than 40,000 Natives will have to find another place to live. The natural habitat destruction, deforestation and the disappearance of many species is a fact.”
What moves me in my very bowels , making me ashamed of being part of Western culture, is the reaction of the chief of the Kayapo community when he learned of the decision—his gesture of dignity and helplessness before the advance of capitalist progress, modern predatory civilization that does not respect the differences . . .

But we know that a picture is worth a thousand words, showing the reality of the true price of our bourgeois “quality of life”.

For nearly 30 years, Chief Raoni has fought tirelessly to stop The Belo Monte Dam being built in his beloved Amazon Rainforest. Tragically, this is now starting to happen, illegally, as there are still many outstanding lawsuits against it. It will devastate the Xingu River which Chief Raoni’s people, the Kayapo, need for their very existence. It will be the third largest dam in the world and the most inefficient. Many other tribes will be affected and the Rainforest will be irreversibly decimated. Many species will be wiped out.

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, plans to build a further 59 dams in The Rainforest, plus a total of over 400 throughout Brazil before 2030. It is insanity.
We cannot continue living in this manner, allowing others to destroy our planet for profit and greed, or for energy to feed our insatiable appetite for materialism.

Please join with us to help Chief Raoni stop Belo Monte, and to stop deforestation in The Amazon Rainforest.

Phone/email/write to your Embassies of Brazil, your major TV and Radio stations, newspapers and magazines, tell them what is happening, for we are now way beyond The Eleventh Hour. You can use the Facebook ‘Search’ box at the top of your page to contact them.

WE ARE HERE TO FIGHT THE CORPORATIONS & POLITICIANS WHO LIVE ONLY FOR GREED & POWER

Below you will find some informative videos and petitions. Please watch, read and sign, then share them around the world for this is now SO SERIOUS that it is almost impossible to put into words.

Petition to Stop The Banks from Investing in Belo Monte
http://www.avaaz.org/en/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/

Avaaz Petition Against Belo Monte http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Petition_Mondiale_contre_le_barrage_de_Belo_Monte_en_Amazonie/?cAUFybb

Petition in Support of Chief Raoni
http://www.raoni.com/signature-petition-against-belo-monte.php

Defending The Rivers Of The Amazon (The Story of Belo Monte - Narrated by Sigourney Weaver)
Defending the Rivers of the Amazon, with Sigourney Weaver

Voice Of The Xingu (english narration with portuguese subtitles)
Voice of the Xingu - Portuguese version on Vimeo

Citizens Of The World Against Belo Monte (English)
Citizens of the World Against Belo Monte
French version
Les Citoyens du Monde Contre Belo Monte
Portuguese version
Cidadãos do Mundo Contra Belo Monte

[Atlantian]

Era preciso outro Genghis Khan!

Quando o império mongol chacinou 40 milhões de pessoas, o efeito foi, diminuição dos níveis de dióxido de carbono, menos pessoas, menos campos de cultivo, reaparecimento das florestas.

Who knew that killing 40 million people could be hailed as having a “positive” effect on global warming?

Apparently, whether he knew it or not, Genghis Khan’s invasions of the 13th and 14th centuries were so sweeping, it “may have been the first instance in history of a single culture causing man-made climate change,” marvels enviro-journalist Bryan Nelson.
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The mass slaughter, Nelson writes in a Mother Nature Network report, was actually able to cool the environment by “effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.”

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The research on Khan’s net effect on the environment was first published in the climate-change journal The Holocene, prompting Nelson to pen his article titled “Was Genghis Khan History’s Greenest Conqueror?”

“So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history’s cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card?” Nelson writes. “The reality may be a bit difficult for today’s environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire – with a high body count.”

“Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire,” Nelson explains, “about 22 percent of the world’s total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.

“In other words,” Nelson concludes, “one effect of Genghis Khan’s unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.”

Julia Pongratz of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology was lead author of the study into Khan’s environmental impact.

“It’s a common misconception that the human impact on climate began with the large-scale burning of coal and oil in the industrial era,” said Pongratz in a statement. “Actually, humans started to influence the environment thousands of years ago by changing the vegetation cover of the Earth’s landscapes when we cleared forests for agriculture.”

Pongratz and her colleagues focused their study on four historical events that she theorized could have killed enough people to make room for massive reforestation: the Black Death in Europe, the fall of China’s Ming Dynasty, the conquest of the Americas and the Mongol invasion.

“We found that during the short events such as the Black Death and the Ming Dynasty collapse, the forest re-growth wasn’t enough to overcome the emissions from decaying material in the soil,” explains Pongratz. “But during the longer-lasting ones like the Mongol invasion and the conquest of the Americas, there was enough time for the forests to re-grow and absorb significant amounts of carbon.”

The research has already been reported widely, not only on Mother Nature News, but also in newspapers around the world and on conservationist websites like Mongabay and Planetsave, the latter of which hailed Khan as “an environmentalist.”

Reader comments on the stories, however, have blasted Nelson and others for celebrating in the name of climate change a man whose hordes killed an estimated 40 million people.

“I am a liberal,” claims one Mother Nature News reader, “[but] praising Genghis Khan for his impact on the environment is … insane.”

“Anyone who doubts that environmentalists are the most anti-human group in the world, think about this,” scathes a comment from another reader. “Their admiration for a first-class murderer ought to tell humans just what their game is – no morality, just reduce carbon and exterminate human life.”

Columnists and commentators aside, the researchers behind the study claim their research is relevant to today’s climate controversies, but left specific application of their findings somewhat vague.

“In the past we have had a substantial impact on global climate and the carbon cycle, but it was all unintentional,” explains Pongratz. “Based on the knowledge we have gained from the past, we are now in a position to make land-use decisions that will diminish our impact on climate and the carbon cycle. We cannot ignore the knowledge we have gained.”

http://www.wnd.com/2011/01/255473/

[system]

A Amazónia é o Sporting, e a barragem o que a continuidade rumo à mediocridade lhe quer fazer.

É o tal modelo de desenvolvimento que “tem de ser”, pois “não há alternativas”. Responsabilidades pelos graves impactos das acções e deste modelo de desenvolvimento sem alternativas? Não há. Só há as acções com os efeitos que se conhecem e se repercutem, mas não há responsáveis. Só gente a viver à grande enquanto explora os recursos da floresta amazónica e do Sporting sem controlo e desequilibradamente, exaurindo-os. Quando muito, a culpa é da desregulação do sistema, nunca daqueles que fazem a sua defesa e apologia e dele se servem.

Salvem a Amazónia, e salvem o Sporting!