A Dam-Building Boom Is Transforming the Brazilian Amazon
I think it&#x27;s a fair move. A lot of people around the world and organizations try to do anything on their hands to protect Brazil from using its own lands. Meanwhile all countries have devastated their own forests to build ships and make wars, people from Brazil are hungry and the country must grow to make the lives of all the human beings there good.<p>But no, instead we&#x27;ve got first world countries which give us always very shitty trade deals speaking about what we do with our own land, when they complete wrecked theirs. And if you check their energy solutions, it&#x27;s always coal, or they all got cars, or anything. They&#x27;ve got their own problems, which are potentially even worse for the environment but they keep looking at a poor country, just as they did in the past, to perhaps steal gold, slave people, make money... They want us to follow their crappy and shitty agenda when they can&#x27;t even get decent politicians, they get shitty ones as we do, they go on middle-east and make fucking wars everytime, killing millions. But no, we can&#x27;t do whatever the fuck we want with our forests.<p>The sad part is that much of Brazil has succumbed to environmentalists from abroad. If those who complain about it would go to Brazil and try to live a middle-class life there with a job in shitty conditions going through a crisis  every decade, always feeling things aren&#x27;t stable enough to make a living. Perhaps living in a big city, taking 2-3 hours to go to work, then 2-3 hours to go back, I&#x27;ve bet that they wouldn&#x27;t care too much about Amazon or whatever countries from abroad says... but they don&#x27;t, they come from privileged backgrounds, sometimes they say that they know poverty, sure, everybody can look at a magazine, but did they ever feel it like they do in a country like Brazil?<p>my 2 cents, thumbs down as much as you feel like.<p>ps: I completely get the point of environmentalists, but this will never work out while people are still hungry. Perhaps you should ask for your country to help Brazil to reach its enlightenment and then have enough cash and businesses to be willing to protect its own forest. But no, you just make the situation worse.