The AMAZON FOREST: Why you should answer these questions. Josimar Salum

The AMAZON FOREST: Why you should answer these questions.

Josimar Salum

Somebody help me answer these questions. Let us say… "curiosities". At least 10. It will be very fast.

1) Sao Paulo last Monday was covered in darkness due to fires in the Amazon rainforest. Why was no other region covered with darkness in the path of all this smoke? Forgive my ignorance.

2) How can the Amazon rainforest be the "lungs" of the world if lungs only consume oxygen? I never knew that lungs produce oxygen. Yes, once repeated many times, a falsehood really becomes "true," I mean, eventually believed to be true. The Amazon produces only 20% of the Earth's oxygen and consumes most of it. Did you know that ocean algae are the largest source of oxygen in the world?

3) My biggest disappointment when visiting Madagascar (former French colony whose forests were destroyed by France) was to find that the great island does not serve as a habitat for lions or giraffes, as in movies. Why does Macron, President of France, call the Amazon his home? Is he a leopard or a capuchin monkey?

4) Did you know that in the Amazon alligators and porpoises are dying from the fires of the wildfire and their giraffes are seeking asylum in Brazilian zoos?

5) 84% of the native Amazon forest is preserved. Brazil has 63% of its territory covered with vegetation. Europe has historically colonized more than a hundred countries, killing its natives, animals and fish as well as minerals, forest riches, and so on. Brazil borders France (Guyana) through which millions of tons of wood pass to build their furniture. Can Macron teach moral in Brazil? Macron is so "macron", just an accent! Just one comment from a long vowel, AAAAHHHH! Poor guy! He is going to loose his Presidency soon. He should take care of his own business. 

6) If I cut a tree on my own property to make fence posts, I can be arrested without chance for bail! With such a Forest Code, why is it difficult to combat or clear the Amazon rainforest? Is it not because it covers territory that is eight times larger than France?

7) Why were NGOs operating in the Amazon sponsored by foreign countries? For the sake of nature or for the sake of money? Have you done any in-depth research on the presence of these NGOs in the region and their true interests?

8) According to the Global Carbon Project, in 2016 alone Germany emitted a total of 89.83 billion tons of CO2, against 13.88 billion tons of Brazil. The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Japan are the largest emitters of CO2 on the planet and France, as they have for decades and generations. According to the colonizing logic, they pollute and Brazil is the one who cleans up the mess? They committed the environmental crime of the century and Brazil is going to be arrested?

9) Why did the Bolsonaro government arouse the interest of the whole of Brazil in the Amazon, something that has never happened before? Brazil is rediscovering Brazil and this is wonderful.

10) Should Brazilians who love their Brazil defend their territory and help solve their problems, including fighting forest fires, natural or provoked, in order to defend the trillions-dollar wealth of the Amazon or should they help international countries to intervene in the region? Should the brazilian Amazon develop sustainably for the beneficiaries of 20 million Brazilians in the region or keep all these people in poverty, including the natives?

Some say, some have said; I say: I have asked! And could you answer?

#ASONE #FreeBrazil

08/24/2019