Comments on: A Dry Horizon for the Amazon

By: Phillip Huggan

Phillip Huggan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:42:04 +0000

http://www.ecologyfund.com has daily buttons that can be clicked to save rainforests. They donate 500ft^2 upon signing up (free and quick) and 2000ft^2 if you send e-mails to 20 people to join (or 100ft^2 per person). Corporate sponsor ads fund this so businesses can go green by putting up ads here.

Also, there is a search engine (ask.com search technology) at http://www.everyclick.com that donates two cents per search to a charity of your choice. A quick search reveals “Rainforest Concern” as an appropriate charity:
Rainforest Concern was established in 1993 to purchase and protect threatened tropical rainforest rich in bio-diversity.

More importantly, spread the word!

By: phonorcas

phonorcas — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:11:52 +0000

“I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.” Jeremiah 10:23

By: rhb

rhb — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:18:55 +0000

All these comments are fine, but nobody is doing anything. Government is not going to fix the problem. Individuals are going to have to fix it. It’s going to take more than words.

By: bonanzaman

bonanzaman — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:40:42 +0000

The Amazon forest is the heart and lungs of planet earth. We lose it at our peril.

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:59:04 +0000

I agree w/ GMF-man is and has been raping Mother Earth,unnecessarily.Native Americans honor nature,took only what they needed to survive,with respect and great reverence for all life and future life. Why do you think they were pushed aside?No $$`s in it. I also believe g-warming is a hyped tool of manipulation,fear-mongoring for profit,further control our actions.If we lose our plankton(which provides majority of our oxygen,not trees) well…that does scare me.
It`s the oceans that are warming,not the globe.Due to undersea volcanism-not to mention our sun which directly drives our climate.Their heat is melting perimeters of ice,not the core.
Oceanlife and our coral reefs are already disappearing,dying,sickened.Waters are too warm,
and cause of all these floods from torrential rains,worldwide.More heat= more evaporation=more precipitation.I call it ‘global-extreming’ as there is record snow,ice,hail,rain,as well as extreme heat/drought.Man is responsible for harming nature but certainly not for their phrase “global-warming”.Their are cosmic forces occurring,all the planets are experiencing changes,which we have no control over.Please shed their ‘guilt-trip’ and realize what is going on is either cyclical,precursor to a new ice age,or something God only knows.Our sun is not in a normal mode and it`s flares are to be 50% worse during it`s cycle #24 approaching 2012.I am reminded of what the Mayans imply and the Hopi`s repeated warnings,man will have to go underground in the future.Instead of worrying about what lightbulb to use,we should be demanding the truth.I`m sure TPTB know.They have underground cities to crawl into.We deserve the truth,half a chance to survive,the knowledge to prepare.Some state a pole shift is imminent,the globe is actually cooling,glaciers are also growing worldwide(true+unreported) and/or it`s a natural cycle. Maybe Revelations is just simply playing out? I beleive in protecting our natural resources,habitats,etc.but I will not be their unwitting peon,flapping in the wind due to obvious propaganda.Their usual tactics to maintain ‘control of the masses’ and limit or hide TRUE knowledge,should be crystal clear to most,by now.Look how far they`ve progressed,how
much we are deprived of and losing.

By: Tony Bains

Tony Bains — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:05:29 +0000

What can really change us humans, the main pests on this planet?
Our greed seems to be the cause of all evil and rain forest will be gone, there is no doubt about it.
Solution: a dramatic international joined action in terms of changing current ways on forests preservation, not only in Amazon but in every corner of this planet. Trees must be planted on every possible clear spot. We all must take the responsibility and plant trees wherever we can. Municipalities must take immidiate action and plant trees along river banks and in every possible spot where tree can grow.
and of course change the obsolete technology with cleaner ways of burning fosil fuels.
Will it be done this way?? I doubt it.

By: rhb

rhb — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:28:17 +0000

It’s going to take more than words to resolve this problem.

By: Brigitte Picart

Brigitte Picart — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:42:49 +0000

Deforestation to make grassland for cattle grazing and grow soy for cattle feed – both due to meat consumption. Go meatless and save the Amazon!

Ecuador asked for financial incentives to protect its own part of the Amazon. Good idea. Let’s make it economically rewarding in the short term for these poor cash-strapped countries to protect their share of the earth’s lungs.

By: JPJ

JPJ — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:36:11 +0000

GMF said it all.
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We were all taught the Water Cycle when we were about 11 yrs old.

By: Howard Stallings

Howard Stallings — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:55:05 +0000

Our Mother is dying,
she is crying,
vermin are violating her,
stripping and burning
and sucking her juices dry.
Our Mother is fevered,
her lungs palsied,
her blood poisoned,
she must purge
the evil parasites,
she must rest.