Logging on the rise again in the Brazilian Amazon

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http://grist.org/news/logging-on-the-rise-again-in-the-brazilian-amazon/

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Can you tell which part has been logged?

Buried amid the bleak news in a forest study that we told you about last week was a glimmer of hope: Analysis of satellite images taken from 2000 to 2012 revealed that deforestation was slowing down in Brazil.

But new Brazilian government figures, from August 2012 to July 2013, indicate that bad news is back: Amazonian deforestation over that period increased by 28 percent compared to the preceding 12 months. The Guardian reports:


The [increase], boosted partly by expanding farms and a rush for land around big infrastructure projects, fulfilled predictions by scientists and environmentalists that destruction was on the rise again. …

The reasons for the rebound in deforestation are numerous. Changes to Brazil’s forestry laws have created uncertainty among landowners regarding the amount of woodland they must preserve.

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1. It's not my tree that I cut down that is the problem, it's everybody else's trees that are being

cut down that is the problem.

Is that the way people are thinking as they do this? I can't imagine anyone believing that it's okay. They need some powerful excuses to tell themselves every day.

Did you ever wonder what the minimum number of trees the Earth really requires in order to sustain life? Gee, let's find out, kids. How about it! We can always just replant it if we need to, right? It's just a tree. That "ecosystem" talk is just left wing, anti-business, peacenik bs anyway, right? Air just happens.



Thank the Lord that Heaven doesn't have these problems and that I can just take whatever I want from the earth and not worry about the consequences. Besides, the Earth belongs to the Devil. That means it's okay.