Brazilian govt working to overturn historic decision on Belo Monte Dam: Please take action

Without a doubt, greed breeds insanity.

great comment, thanks for your thoughts

Thank you. I cried watching this. This is happening globally as we sit and watch these good people who care about the Earth having their culture and land destroyed all for the almighty dollar.

I battled for years with my local indigenous elders and my Gran to save their heritage, historical sites and our wonderful forest home. The local Forestry Department bulldozed all their most precious sacred sites and trees after promising to protect them (they left the trees where peoples heads had been nailed to).

Animals! That's all I can say about the scum from the Forestry Department of the 1980's. Not much has changed. Actually it's probably worse now and getting worse every year.

Stupid people know nothing about the plants in the world around them today. How to survive in the world they live in without their consumer items. Elders will teach you if you are human enough to talk to them, show a little respect. The Elders had to teach me what racism was as a child because I couldn't even comprehend someone would treat another person badly.

I cried too. Damn it's so utterly appalling what has become of things. I was considered unusual and strange by my school deputy principal for my concern over our direction back in the 80's. Some locals called me nigger lover. My Indigenous elder responsible for most of my teachings (his children were stolen from him and his wife) was hung by corrupt police officers because he was the last custodian for our area with an unbroken link to the land and the government feared his rightful claim to land that was not even privately owned and big logging companies wanted to log and mine.

Unbeknown to them we saved his son and changed his name so they don't know where he is. They cut his mother up with a knife but she still survives despite some serious trauma she deals with daily. She was my second mother and I was broken by what they did to such a beautiful women who treated me as her own with love and respect few others could match.

Damn them for what they did to my community. I hope they enjoy the years of fear they now spend running from litigation investigation and fear of being exposed. Every now and then I kick things off again. I have so many documents on those corrupt cops and politicians and every now and then a little bit turns up at crime investigation units and media outlets to scare them. Of course I hold onto the serious evidence and important details until all their mates no longer have positions of influence, then whamo! Those crooks have to look over their shoulder and wonder when they will be fully exposed all their lives.

That's just evil. Your courage is commendable. What these governments have done globally for so long is nothing short of genocide in my eyes. I hope the day will soon come when they do see their ivory towers fall.

Cheers! Done

done !

Thank you.

Thank you.