{"id":139196,"date":"2019-08-05T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=139196"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:59:35","slug":"brazils-massive-crime-against-humanity-in-the-amazon-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/brazils-massive-crime-against-humanity-in-the-amazon-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Massive Crime against Humanity in the Amazon Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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29 Jul 2019 – <\/em>The corrupt Brazilian government installed by Washington has decided o destroy the Amazon Rain Forest.\u00a0 This will adversely affect the Earth\u2019s climate by eliminating a massive carbon sink.<\/p>\n

The beneficiaries of the destruction of the rain forest are the timber loggers who are buddies with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, environmental minister Ricardo Salles, and farming lobbyist Tereza Cristina Dias.<\/p>\n

One might have thought that the build-up of CO2 and the impact of carbon emissions in raising the temperature of Earth would result in more careful and responsible policies than one that destroys a unique ecological habitat that stabilizes the Earth\u2019s climate. For no other reason than to maximize profits for timber loggers, the Amazon Rain Forest is to be destroyed. This is unregulated international gangster capitalism at work.\u00a0 Destroy the planet for everyone else so that a handful of gangsters can acquire fortunes.<\/p>\n

We cannot expect any intelligence in a government where Dias dismisses global warming as \u201can international Marxist plot.\u201d Dias sounds like a parrot for the anti-global warming think tanks sponsored by the carbon energy lobby.\u00a0 Anything that would constrain short-run profits regardless of their long-run costs is dismissed as a hoax or a communist plot.<\/p>\n

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Forest and topsoil must first be removed before ore can be accessed at Brazil\u2019s Norsk Hydro ASA Paragominas open pit mine. Such industrial processes would be highly destructive of Brazil\u2019s forests, indigenous reserves and cultures.
(Photo: Norsk Hydro ASA via VisualHunt \/ CC BY-NC-SA.)<\/p><\/div>\n

President Lula de Silva and his successor Dilma Rousseff attempted to run Brazil in the interests of a broader segment of the population than the robber-baron capitalists. In its unbridled form, capitalism is an exploitative mechanism that permits a few people to grab large profits in the near term by imposing massive external costs on the broader society and the environment.\u00a0 The more responsible policies of Lula and Rousseff enraged the Brazilian robber barons and their backers in Washington.\u00a0 Using the capitalist controlled press, Brazil\u2019s gangster capitalists demonized Lula and Rousseff. They were accused of money laundering and \u201cpassive corruption.\u201d\u00a0 The most corrupt elements on the political scene framed them up on false charges. Lula was imprisoned and Rousseff was impeached and removed from office, thus turning the country back over to Washington and the corrupt Brazilian capitalists. The idiot Brazilian population accepted this.\u00a0 The fools believed their enemies.<\/p>\n

Currently, the rain forest is being destroyed at the rate of 3 football fields per minute.\u00a0 The rain forest has already lost 17 percent of its tree cover.\u00a0 Scientists report that when deforestation reaches 20 to 25 percent the rain forest converts to savanna and loses its ability to absorb carbon.\u00a0 But the concerns expressed at Brazil\u2019s National Institute of Amazonian Research are not as important to Bolsonaro and his cronies as the profits temporarily gained by destroying the rain forest along with the many species dependent on the habitat of the rain forest.<\/p>\n

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Area cleared within Jamanxim National Forest.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of OEco.<\/p><\/div>\n

The policies for which a small handful of Brazilian capitalist gangsters, backed by Washington, are responsible will have massive effects and impose massive costs on the rest of mankind.\u00a0 More melting of ice and release of methane, rising and more acidic oceans, drought, water stress, more intense storms all of which affect food production. The extinction rates of species increase. The external costs are many and massive. The profits of the capitalists from plundering the Amazon rain forest will be exceeded a billion times over by the external costs imposed on the rest of the world by a handful of Brazilian political gangsters.<\/p>\n

What is happening right now in Brazil is a massive crime against humanity.\u00a0 It is such a massive crime that the countries on Earth should unite and give the corrupt gangster Brazilian government an ultimatum:\u00a0 Stop the deforestation of the Amazon Rain Forest or be invaded and put on trial for crimes against humanity. There is no greater crime than to make the Earth uninhabitable. There is no better case for war than to protect the global climate and life on earth.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the <\/em>Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for <\/em>Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and <\/em>Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. Roberts’ latest books are <\/em>The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> and<\/em> How America Was Lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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