From: clyder@GN.APC.ORG
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 03:25:48 EDT
We have to be cautious about lambasting the Brazileans here We in Europe destroyed our virgin forests in the neolithic revolution with further final clearances in the middle ages. That was a precondition for the development of capitalist civilisation. Much of the amazonian forest is secondary regrowth after the original neolithic agricultural system of the basin was destroyed by the extinction of the populations there after european contact. The process of replacement of forests by agriculture is a normal phase in the development of pre-capitalist, let alone capitalist society. Quoting Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM: > < > http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/20/wjung20.xml > > > > I heard about this on the BBC nightly news the other day. The BBC > report claimed that the Green Party had withdrawn from a coalition > with Lula's Workers' Party in protest over the inability and/or > unwillingness of the government to stop the destruction of the > Amazon rainforest. The report above claims that about half of the > rainforest > destroyed last year was in the state of Mato Grosso whose governor > owns the world's largest soybean corporation. Most of the soy is for > export and the BBC report claimed that it was largely responsible for > the trade surplus in agricultural products from Brazil last year. > > Why hasn't the Lula government taken actions that (effectively) prevent the > further destruction of the rainforest? > > In solidarity, Jerry > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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