Brazil unveils new plan to curb Amazon logging

good for Brazil govt.

Thank you Brazil, the world needs these rain forests, they produce a great amount of the oxygen we depend on.

If i had the money i'd go buy rainforest property to keep it safe from loggers. how much would a few acres go for, i wonder?

This is an excellent step forward!

I hope they keep this up.

Good news. They should feel a great amount of national pride, what with being home to half the world's oxygen.

Great news

great first step

though not the first political decision coming from brazil in trying to help stop deforestation aka !dejungleation!

here is where the international community has to jump in. which already happens right? we already do this? if we do, then the effects are not as effective as needed, there is unfortunately enough proof of that.
i am not saying brazil has to be sanctioned or anything, just that as an example, this idea of subsidizing w/ govt money some social behavior, well, its effectiveness is most of the time way below needed averages. needed as in relation to what scientists and scholars throughout the globe agree are the steps needed to curb our waste management approach, tangibly, and also socially, if one is to think that those not in the stronghold of the economic and financial systems are also a waste.

Maybe the UN can bring these minds together and create swift public studies, keep them public, and move towards not only sustainability of the habitats, but expansion, so as to compensate for other destructive human behavior on the other side of the planet. ….. Which we already do?

and here is where the funny part is, because the 2 way media will be able to keep "truth channels" alive, social scrutiny will be all around and international political entities will not be able to avoid well proven, easily and directly transmitted FACTS, aka reality. what seems to bloom out of this, is that this behavior obliterates the gridlock that law and jurisdiction have in the current system. what is also shown is that we are now totally dependant on these electricity based, immediate ways of communication. we are vulnerable to easily being brought down back to cavemen’s age in all levels, to be controlled and easily malleable as such; or we keep instantly communicating, showing the implementation of the fact that the more information is transmitted, the better. Like a brain! So don’t hurt the brain! Keep social brains alive, cities are intrinsic to the sustainability of progress, and they are progress within themselves because of the huge change they will have to go through so as to accept the levels of population of the near future. power mongers have to see the reality that control is an illusion, it is temporary, cannot be owned. the temporary grip of “immediate consequence” that politics have cannot be used for unethical ends any longer.
induced social havoc, “officially” accepted as such or not, has to be stopped from being the hinge in social mental growth, we can reason, we are adults!

so this may not be the first step, maybe the first one will be getting the commitment of a country or GROUP OF COUNTRIES considered a big global polluter, to sponsor a country or GROUP OF COUNTRIES to help achieve the reasoned needed goals that international scholars believe are needed so as to curb our current erosive condition and behavior. …. which we already do??

this does not concentrate power in less spots, what it does is spreads the benefits of what other spots create. communist democracy!

if not brazil, if not the UN, then SOME social entity, maybe two

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

This is probably the most important environmental issue in the world. If you are concerned about Global Warming, looking at what kind of paper you are buying is a great first step. Anthropogenic deforestation could contribute to as much as a THIRD of all carbon emissions from humans! That is not even taking into account the fact that we are cutting down carbon-breathing machines or completely destroying an ecosystem.

Brazil, rightly, doesn't want other countries poking around their country and they also don't want to be economically crippled by handling this issue. The international community NEEDS to provide growing countries with economic incentives to stop the cutting. I personally am an advocate of carbon markets, which would put the competitive power of capitalism to good environmental use for a change.

Fucking trees.. I hate people..

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Finally - I was afraid they were doing to wait until the very last tree was gone.

Unless you are one of the farmers in that area of Brazil, it is probably difficult to realize that feeding your family is of more importance than "saving the rainforest." I'm not sure that people living in "survival mode" have the luxury of thinking about the entire planet and it's need for oxygen. Having said all that, the government of Brazil is, I think, to be congratulated for realizing this very fact - that these people have to survive and if cutting trees is not the answer, then another answer must be found. "Sustainability" needs to apply to humans as well as rainforests.