Latin America Moves Left and Forward

[Bacchus4.0]

4. the document cites the Belo Monte dam and the cross continent highways

I hate to burst your imaginary bubble on environmental progress in Latin America.

I am not so optimistic about an environmental revolution originating from Latin America. Words on a piece of paper don't mean much when you are building superhighways, mines, dams, new oil exploration, have lax environmental enforcement, discharge runoff and waste water directly into rivers, logging, and slash and burn agriculture.

its going to take more than "declarations" to confront those issues. Developed countries have high environmental standards comparatively. Lack of environmental standards and low labor costs (and standards) are reasons those corporations you despise move overseas. Overall, environmental conscienceness is greater in developed countries. Environmental standards and enforcement is much more rigorous in developed countries. Many nations in Latin America have environmental laws and procedures (mostly modeled after US and European procedures) that are openly ignored.

On the other hand, consumption by developed countries results in environmental degradation of undeveloped countries no question about it.

fortunately Latin America has vast amounts of undeveloped land, unfortunately it is being destroyed bit by bit.