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Conflict of Interest: Deforestation in the Amazon Basin (Increasing world…
Conflict of Interest: Deforestation in the Amazon Basin
Government use profits to repay debts owed to countries all around the world
Industrial Substitution Industrialisation (ISI) scheme set them in severe debt to the World Bank
Increasing world population
Agriculture
Soya genetically modified to grow in Savanna climate; monoculture cash crop led to clearing of forest & extinction of flora&fauna
34% of total deforestation due to farming, rising as Brazil try to get into the world trading system
No1 beef exporter
165 million cattle
Pasture's make up 20% of Brazil's natural territory
Extraction of trees makes latasol infertile without vegetation cover; grass not nutrient rich; more forest cleared
Logging
Demand for hard woods e.g teak, hardwood, Brazil wood
Local government distribute licences cheaply & few controls in place to control it
2.5% of Brazil's GNP
80% illegal
1 tree could be worth €15,000 but up to 1 acre maybe logged for this tree
Mining
Suffering of indigenous people due to violent miners e.g Yanomami tribe attacked&killed trying to protect their homes
Earth poisoned with cyanide (used to extract gold); locals south of the river Tapajos reported 90% of fish caught contaminated with mercury
Local weather systems
Without trees transpiring, no moisture in air
Local drought
Latasol soils turn into brick-like laterites which cannot be cultivated
Desertification
Global Warming
Trees in Amazon a carbon sink more CO2 in atmosphere
Climate Change
Rising Sea Levels
Brazil a Newly Industrialised Country (NIC)