| The human race is blessed to have landed on a planet filled with so much generous abundance. We greedily extract the earths resources without limits and deposit the poison waste in her lap. |
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Cont. We would poison the mother of our existance without so much as a How-D-do. Like a mother, she will never stop giving. Like the soul bound on suicide, she will continue to give until she dies, or we do. |
The world waits  A planet divided over the question 0f global warming. |
Tears of dust
The tears which must follow the dust Shall be the liguid for a powerful rust That melts down the steel of giants And builds greenhouses full of clients TJ/09  When the coorporations and corrupt politicians finish harvesting the rain forest they will leave behind death--death of life, of water, of soil and air. |
 Defoliants were successfully used in Vietnam.  Killing the past and the future |
Lets look at a map of the shrinking Rain Forests in the Brazilian Amazon http://www.msnbc.com/modules/terminalplanet/forest/forest.htm This shows us how fast the Brazilian rain forests are dissappearing.. The world's rainforests are living treasure chests. They're home to
an amazing biodiversity ====================================================== A better way of getting a handle on this question is to look at trends
over time. And here ======================================================= Washington, D.C.-
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon may be on the rise, ========================================================== Deforestation accounts for approximately one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions andis responsible for significant species loss worldwide. Recent anti-deforestation measures under the administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have led to a marked drop in the rate of forest loss over the past three years. =========================================================== We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning consequences for both developing and industrial countries. Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners. Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation. Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists. Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Georgia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal. There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000. In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing. Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down. When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants. ========================================================== A malnurished adult. Possibly an ex POW   The weak shall suffer the greatest. ========================================================== |
 The people and traditions are also dying with the florest. Here a small tribe "protected" by our hotel. In this way they can keep on living on the forest as they ancestors did, passing on their culture to their beautiful children. Amazonas, Brazil ======================================  Tree Death and Forest Decline The great ice storm of January 1998 was the worst Maine, New Hampshire, New Brunswick and Quebec.  Pollutant-bearing clouds sit atop Mt. Katahdin. Photo by Paul Donahue.  Droughts throughout Africa assure starvation  Refugees overwhelm poorly supplied camps lacking even the basic necessities and filled with disease. ====================================== Links
Write the UN: http://www.un.org/en/index.shtml World food programme: http://www.wfp.org/ World health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/ Human traffic .org: http://www.humantrafficking.org/ US Dept of health and human resources campaign to rescue and restore victims of human trafficking http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/ |
