Posted on 11/27/2009 1:10:02 PM PST by geddylee
Brazil's president says "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.
"I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree," Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said ahead of an Amazon summit. "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
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I actually agree with this guy. I don’t care if they cut down some forest and develop their land. I don’t even care if they use DDT.
My apology. I meant “Collapse”, Jered Diamond’s wonderful sequel. He lists different cultures, and what led to their collapse. Environmental factors were prevalent in almost all of them. I think Brazil should read the section on Haiti, to see what happens when they cut their trees down.
"Gringos Invite Wetback Presdient of Brazil to Bite Them, Expire Puking"
I think that this is more of a ‘put up or shut up’ to the greenie eco-meddlers that are constantly harping on Brazil’s rain forests, rather than a ‘give us money or the rain forest gets it’ to Americans at large.
“There was a man in the jungle, trying to make ends meet
Found himself one day with an axe in his hand
When a voice said “Buddy can you spare that tree
We gotta save this world - starting with your land.”
- Obvious Song
by Joe Jackson
Perhaps the racist dolt Lulu La La shoulc check his facts about American forsests, etc. There are now more trees in America than when the Pilgrims landed here. The US plants millions of trees every year.
Another psycho South American lecturinig us from their 3rd world banana hell hole.
As Lulu if you’re safe on the streets in Brazil in Rio or Sao Paulo, etc, not to mention Caracas, Venezuela, or Bogata, or how many places in Columbia or even with our esteemed neighbors to the South, Mexico.
Africa, South America and the Middle East, dangerous hell holes.
And it means........?
(Hint - they speak Portuguese in Brazil).
We can be called gringos, crackers, honkies, et al and the world doesn’t bat an eye. But just refer to a Mexican as a wetback or spic, or a black as a you-know-what, and we’re talking hate crimes.
The area of forest in the US has been growing in recent decades, and (by the way) we have essentially no tropical rain forests here.
No one should pay any serious attention the Brazilian leader.
...so telling the Brazilians how to live is “racist” and forcing our lifestyle on them, but telling me what kind of car to drive and what kind of lightbulbs to us is okay?
Let ‘em eat trees...
It means No Go.
There was a famous marketing story about Chevrolet promoting a particular model of car they used to make, and it didn’t do well in Brazil; the Nova.
I read this as his telling the Western environmentalists and governments to take a flying leap.
The Brazilians have nothing this gringo wants
Sooo.....
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,
Come and get it.
Well if you can say wetback or spic,why can`t you say nigger?
Most (ALL) Brazilians I know like lula about as much as we do oBOWma. Lula’s an uneducated idiot who got to power by lying to the ‘peasants” and being a union thug.
“You white Americans make me sick! You waste food, oil, and everything else because you’re so rich, and then you tell the rest of the world to save the rainforest because you like its pretty flowers.”
So now I’m a gringo... hmmm. Does that mean I can call them names that refer to their skin/culture? Oh wait, only *I* can be a racist. No wonder I don’t give a rats a** what they think.
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