Posted on 11/27/2009 1:10:02 PM PST by geddylee
Brazil's president says "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.
"I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree," Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said ahead of an Amazon summit. "We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century
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I just assumed if I did my post would be deleted.
Really,thought you were just suffering from partial PCitis.Well if you`re going to talk the talk do it right,or don`t do it at all.
Here’s a Bic lighter and a can of charcoal starter. Knock yourself out, Lulu.
Hammer (& sickle), axe, and saw. Check out the nuts on Brazil.
CW2. Yup, I hope its coming. I’m ready. This buttplug in The White House has got to go and 2012 is too far off.
Someone needs to inform this guy that the North American continent apparently has more forest now than since nearly when Columbus arrived.
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