sethnintendo said:
You are right any form of government can burn the forest down to clear land for farmers (which soil will be worthless to farm in only a few years), allow timber companies to have free range and boot natives out of their land. It's just only accelerated at an exponential pace under the current regime. Brazil was military ruled for a long time. Maybe you guys should go back to it because your country is corrupt regardless who is in power. |
No government should burn the rain forest, they should all fight to preserve it and it is a shame that we could not do more to preserve it, although during certain periods of the years fires are absolutely normal and happen due to natural causes.
What really puzzles me is why so many people got interested in it out of a sudden, talking about the fires all the time, cover of magazines, bbc news etc. I wonder what was different in Brazil in the past 15 years that nobody paid attention to it, only now... It's an interesting conundrum indeed.
