Time for military action against Brazil to save the Amazon rain forest ?

Even without the rainforest burning, we are lucky if we have twenty years before the shit hits the fan in every way imaginable. The birds are dying, the fish are dying, the insects are dying, the plants are dying, and we will be lucky if mass starvation doesn't set in because even the way we grow food is unsustainable. Everything has to change, right now, and last people prepared to change anything are the ones the most empowered to do anything. I believe in evolution, people can change, and now is the time to get in their faces about real change, instead of voting for whichever asshole comes next.

We need a theory of everything, but until people at least get off their asses and actually demand change, there is nothing you can say that will motivate them. A record two million women marched in protest against Donald Duck, but they represented less than 1% of the population, and you might as well spit in the wind for all the good it does talking to the rest. No less than 40% of the US population still insists Donald Duck is right, because they are flat out insane.

 

I am pretty stuck on the idea that military intervention is the only language they would understand.

We just have to get our corrupt politicians to turn against the corrupt politicians in the countries doing the most damage to things. They will do it to save themselves.

 

Fukushima, now covered with storage tanks and running out of money and room, with no plans for what to do next. Give it a few months, and everybody will forget about the Amazon being on fire.

 

Its not about corrupt politicians, its about a dying culture. One in five Americans insists the sun revolves around the earth, and its not because they were taught how to share their words and play nice. The idiots have almost no clue how to organize democratically, but have endless opinions on the subject. Even academics are no help whatsoever and often counterproductive, with Richard Dawkins making up his own nonsense word "meme" encouraging millions of his followers to babble complete nonsense, in the name of survival of the fittest atheist. Somebody has to demand people share their words and play nice, while women and children are often the ones who can get away with that kind of demand.

My work includes giving them the metaphors they require to organize more effectively and share their words, all within the public domain. Once an academic asked me what could be done to save the planet from the long list of man-made disasters, and I told him to find out who is teaching all these idiots how to destroy it faster and argue complete nonsense. Fuck all their polite bullshit, and rationalizations, I'm not a billionaire like Donald Duck.

 

Since its non whites in third world countries destroying the most bio diverse places on earth everyone has to walk on egg shells and not criticize otherwise your "racist" or a NAZI and all that BS.

But whites are to blame too.

"Tell German chainsaw manufacturer Stihl to stop making itself an accomplice to the illegal destruction of rainforests and indigenous communities in Malaysia."

German chainsaw manufacturer Stihl is making itself an accomplice to the illegal destruction of rainforests in Malaysia: the distribution of Stihl equipment there is handled by KTS Group, an opaque web of timber and palm oil companies notorious for running roughshod across the land of indigenous peoples. Get Stihl chainsaws out of the rainforest!

 

You can easily state facts without racism. It's when people focus too much on aspects that don't matter its racist. A lot of western white people who deny climate change have the attitude that "those people" don't help so why should I? It easily gets into Alt-right views on those people not being worthy.

 

Humans won't stop till they completely trash everything.

 

December 14, 2019


Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to official data released Saturday.

The 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) deforested that month is also the highest number for any November since 2015, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which provides official data on deforestation.

That is considered a significant increase, particularly during the rainy season, when deforestation generally slows.

For the first 11 months of the year -- also the first months in office of Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right leader who has eased restrictions on exploiting the Amazon's vast riches -- deforestation totaled 8,974.3 square kilometers.

That is nearly twice the 4,878.7 square kilometers reported for the first 11 months of 2018.

The data was collected by the satellite-based DETER system, which monitors deforestation in real time.

Another satellite-based system used by the INPE known as PRODES, considered more reliable but slower to compile data, reported in late November that in the 12 months beginning August 2018, deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon had passed the 10,000 square kilometer threshold for the first time since 2008.

That represented a 43 percent increase from the preceding 12-month period.

Deforestation in indigenous areas rose even faster, by 74.5 percent from the preceding period, INPE reported.

Overall, PRODES showed that the world's largest tropical forest lost 10,100 square kilometers in that 12-month period, compared to 7,033 square kilometers in the previous 12 months.

On Friday, Ricardo Galvao, INPE's former president, was named one of the 10 most important scientists of the year by the respected British journal Nature.

In early August he was fired by the Bolsonaro government, which accused him of exaggerating the extent of deforestation.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon up by more than double: data

 

if the world worked that simple. 'bows and arrows' might be the direct problem, but its the mentality that supports people like that.
in the u.s. we have don pannoccio, in g.b. you've got andy cap.
first we need to elect people who take moral responibility for their choices and actions.
until we do that, killing people is just killing people.
always makes big holes in the ground, full of angry ghosts,
seldom if ever protects or move forward the well being of ourselves or our planet.

(if all the fascists could be deniably removed from power, that would be a start,
but you know, as long as we continue to create a market for them,
we remain on the interstate to the self inflicted extinction of the human species)