Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Inflamation On The Toe After Pedicure

Greenpeace - Brazil

The Amazon rainforest is in Brazil, but also extends into Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guyana. It 's the largest tropical forest on the planet, just think that the only portion of Brazil covers an area as large as the United States.
Year after year, logging companies are penetrating more deeply into the heart the Amazon forest, devastating. The more you pull deep in the forest, the more you loose the controls from the Brazilian environmental agency and spread of illegal logging practices such as cutting of protected species and the invasion of lands inhabited by indigenous peoples.
Very often, after cutting the trees, the remaining forest is burned and its ashes are sown herbaceous weeds growing rapidly, preventing growth of new trees. But these pastures do not last long: soon the thin mantle of fertile forest is consumed without regeneration and moisture, without protection of the branches, is dried by the sun, leaving ghostly expanse of reddish clay.

In 2007, Greenpeace conducted a survey of more than 40 experts, including government officials, NGO representatives and academic researchers. All were unanimous in saying that there are serious problems due to the failure of protected area management can restore our fish stocks in oceans and the vulnerability to climate change. This study served as the basis for the creation of Greenpeace Oceans Campaign, which has the primary objective the creation of protected areas in 30% of the length of the maritime area under the jurisdiction of the Brazilian and educate people about the importance of marine conservation . Renewables are the answer to pollution and in large part, to climate change. The technologies are ready. Over the past 20 years have seen huge progress. Now serves the political will to promote it. Using the translation of an information leaflet that the U.S. Agency for Emergencies ( http://www.fema.gov/ ) distributes to those who live near a nuclear power plant (the text I extracted from a 'article on the Italian website of Greenpeace) puts the viewer in front of the hand, clearly dangerous in the choice of nucleare.Altri important messages are given by the two post-it, one of which indicates the time needed for disposal of waste that would be created, or hundreds of thousands of years. Indeed, the only "viable option" would be the storage of toxic waste. Finally, I draw inspiration from this anti-nuclear proposal to suggest another solution that engages the theme of "pollution" or renewable energy sources.

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Jossy Swan

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