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Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing
AP / Yahoo News ^
| Nov 26, 2009
| MARCO SIBAJA
Posted on 11/27/2009 3:32:40 AM PST by driftdiver
Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments just before an Amazon summit in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt the deforestation that causes global warming.
"I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree," Silva said. "We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago."
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: brazil; globalwarming; taxes
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And some people on FR think Brazil is a friend of America.
Oh and North America has more trees now than it did a century ago.
To: driftdiver
To: driftdiver
GRINGOS?...GRINGOS?
Gee, that almost sounds racist...
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posted on
11/27/2009 3:36:41 AM PST
by
Mister Muggles
(Seattle: a city full of liberal men with vaginas.)
To: driftdiver
I have to agree with Lula. He makes a valid point about Brazil's ability to feed its people being crippled by do-gooder environazis who want to prevent deforestation.
Those environazis, if they are really serious about saving the rainforest, should indeed put up or shut up.
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posted on
11/27/2009 3:36:50 AM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: driftdiver
so... is he basically saying that the preservation of the Amazon forest depends on us(GRINGOS) paying up for them to preserve it? sounds like self-inflicted blackmail on their part.
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posted on
11/27/2009 3:40:35 AM PST
by
Ancient Drive
(DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
To: driftdiver
From what I’ve read, the thousand mile wide band of trees around the arctic is a far more important source of oxygen.
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posted on
11/27/2009 3:45:11 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: driftdiver
To: Ancient Drive
These people take a significant part of our agriculture and they still want more.
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posted on
11/27/2009 3:53:36 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Mister Muggles
That dipshit probably doesn’t even know where the term “gringo” came from. I know that my ex-Mother-in-Law, the upper class Mexican “Lady” was shocked when I told her.
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posted on
11/27/2009 3:59:56 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
To: driftdiver
GRINGO??????????????????
RACISM!
I demand an APOLOGY!!!!!
Or else I'm going to start looting./s
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:02:01 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
To: Redleg Duke
Please don’t tell me the “Green-go” story...
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:29:02 AM PST
by
villagerjoel
(1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
To: driftdiver
America is a young, ‘developing nation’ too, so we deserve payments from Norway also for our efforts at ending ‘deforestation’ - dibs on the first billion....
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:31:12 AM PST
by
blueplum
To: driftdiver
“.....deforestation that causes global warming.”?
Didn’t snow for the first time in the last hundred years in Brazil two years ago?
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:40:57 AM PST
by
steveab
(When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
To: driftdiver
This has the distinct ring of COI, commenting while intoxicated.
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:42:11 AM PST
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
To: driftdiver
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:54:57 AM PST
by
WellyP
To: driftdiver
First the Saudi’s want us to put money away to feed them when their oil runs out, now Brazil wants us to pay them not to cut their tree’s.
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posted on
11/27/2009 4:56:55 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: driftdiver; rlmorel; Nervous Tick; 4horses+amule; WL-law; Fractal Trader; Beowulf; ...
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posted on
11/27/2009 5:16:28 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
To: driftdiver
A message to Brazil.
“Put down the Chain Saw, Park the Trucks. Shut down the Saw Mills.
Plant Trees and take our democrats off our hands.”
Paul
To: driftdiver
Too bad that the President of Brasil doesn’t read this site because I would tell him Sorry pal,we don’t owe you or your nation one damned dime.
Your people are creating the mess down there.You can pay to clean it up.
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posted on
11/27/2009 5:29:31 AM PST
by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the Dogs.)
To: driftdiver
Brazil: Pay up or I'll shoot.
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posted on
11/27/2009 5:30:31 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Even if it looks dead, drive a thousand more stakes into its heart just to be sure.)
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