Brazilian Disaster
One of the great challenges of history moving forward is getting over our mistakes. For instance, the Third World wants what the First World has, and they don’t understand why they shouldn’t be allowed to go for the gold, literally, in the same way that the developed nations have. Of course they understand the reason, which is that we learned the errors of our ways, and that they shouldn’t be repeated.
This dialectic is particularly significant when it comes to the environment. The big boys got to where they are by ravaging the environment. They clear-cut, drilled, burned, and polluted as if there were no tomorrow. But subsequently, we have come to realize that what we did could actually jeopardize tomorrow. That the destruction of flora and fauna has consequences and they are not good, for the whole world.
But those countries that were not on that enormous gravy train are now looking to get their share of the great gooey global pie of riches, and it’s abundantly clear, at least to sentient and moral beings, that if they follow in our footsteps our dear blue planet Earth will be seriously damaged.
The problem now is that those wannabe societies are run by politicians who garner their power the same way our corrupt government has, through funding by major development corporations who value money over all else, and who have enough of it already to buy the governments that stand in the way of exploiting the land, air and water to produce the profit that is their purpose.
Brazil is the perfect tragic example. Their courts have just approved building the world’s third largest dam in across the Amazon. The profits, ostensibly to create more development, and the destruction of the environment, will both be enormous.
It’s impossible to tell them to stop, after our record, and with our politicians supping at a similar trough, but such an explanation won’t do the Earth any good.
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