http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1002-amazon.html
At a summit this week in Mexico, David Miliband, Britain's Environment Secretary, will propose a plan to "privatize" the Amazon to allow the world's largest rainforest to be bought by individuals and groups, according to a report in The Telegraph newspaper online .
The scheme, which has been endorsed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, would seek to protect the region's biodiversity while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to fight global warming.
According to The Telegraph the plan would "involve the creation of an international body to buy the rainforest before setting up a trust to sell trees" and buyers would become "stake-holders" in the rainforest.
ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST IT?
2006-10-06 18:06:54 · 4 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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As of Sunday evening, Brazil -- the country that houses the bulk of the Amazon rainforest -- had not issued a statement in response to the proposal. In the past Brazil has objected to plans to turn the Amazon into an "international trust" calling such ideas a threat to its national sovereignty. In the late 1950s, following the internationalization of Antarctica, Brazil became concerned over its tenuous claim to the Amazon, an began taking steps to assert control over the region. To establish a "presence" in the Amazon, and therefore the right to keep it as part of the national territory, the Brazilian government established the Manaus Free Trade Zone -- a sort of tariff-free manufacturing zone -- and aggressively promoted settlement and development in the Amazon, resulting in widespread forest loss, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.
2006-10-06 18:14:34 · update #1
FOR IT. If Brazil is too stupid to see the impact that deforestation has on the world they should not be allowed to participate in ownership and should forego any claim on the Amazon.
2006-10-06 18:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by Active Denial System™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds good. but dont let some or any people that only want to cut the trees down own the shares. maybe US need to buy the major share. because its the largest, most poluted, and richest country.
2006-10-10 01:24:32 · answer #2 · answered by richi rasyid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Works for me.... better than the burning and clear cutting that is going on now.
2006-10-07 01:20:35 · answer #3 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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no!
We need to breath dont we?!?!!
2006-10-07 01:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by soulsearcher 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋