While Australia is seriously contemplating national psychotic self harm – in the form of an Emissions Trade Scheme, the Brazilians are tearing down the Amazon forest at a frantic pace.
Amazon destruction jumped 228 per cent in August compared with the same month a year ago, according to a report from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.
About 760sq km of the Amazon was destroyed last month, compared with 230sq km in August 2007.
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A recent report showed that Tropical deforestation in Latin America, Asia and Africa accounted for 15% of global CO2 emissions last year, with deforestation in Latin America accounting for 6% or 600 million tonnes. Australia accounts for 1.3% of global emissions.
So we’ll just keep kidding ourselves that by reducing our livestock numbers by 7 million Cattle and 35 million sheep and changing our diet to eating Skippy the national icon we will save the world.
Meanwhile its business as usual for Countries like Brazil, China, USA, Russia, India.
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