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Monday, March 31, 2008

The Clean Energy Scam - TIME - The Rain Forest Soon Gone

The Clean Energy Scam - TIME: "The Amazon was the chic eco-cause of the 1990s, revered as an incomparable storehouse of biodiversity. It's been overshadowed lately by global warming, but the Amazon rain forest happens also to be an incomparable storehouse of carbon, the very carbon that heats up the planet when it's released into the atmosphere.

Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation. Carter is not a man who gets easily spooked--he led a reconnaissance unit in Desert Storm, and I watched him grab a small anaconda with his bare hands in Brazil--but he can sound downright panicky about the future of the forest. 'You can't protect it. There's too much money to be made tearing it down,' he says. 'Out here on the frontier, you really see the market at work.'"

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Helge Keitel said...

sbtvd, thanks for you post. How about Brazil. I've been to your country 1978: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Aracruz. I used to work with process automation.