Amazon forest destruction speeding up


	Amazon forest destruction speeding up

darkduskx

10-9-2008 5:18 PM

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10-9-2008 5:41 PM

deb2012

We need an advocate for the environment in the White House

2-19-2009 2:37 PM

DGNUK

There is a certain brand of Capitalism that believes in the 'law of the jungle'. The problem is, it ends up destroying the jungle!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2fa98b08-4a00-405c-9575-3e94f09745e4/E8EB4B0B-28DC-4408-97B3-9837279E0741/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cnn.com/img/28F5064F-D650-4C27-8AC6-543E23B11960" alt="Nearly 300 square miles of Brazilian rainforest was destroyed in August, officials say." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html"><P>Nearly 300 square miles of Brazilian rainforest was destroyed in August, officials say.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html"><P> <B>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP)</B> -- The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in the deforestation rate.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html"><P> Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc said upcoming nationwide elections are partly to blame, with mayors in the Amazon region turning a blind eye to illegal logging in hopes of gaining votes locally.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html"><P> Non-government environmentalists blame the global spike in food prices for encouraging soy farmers and cattle ranchers to clear land for crops and grazing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html"><P>   Amazon destruction jumped 228 percent in August when compared to the same month a year ago, according to a report from <A class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Brazil">Brazil</A>'s National Institute for Space Research. 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