Sanpaku t1_iubhgnj wrote
What is the Amazon being cut down for? Principally, grazing land for beef and cropland to produce soy for animal feed.
Until Brazil chooses to regulate this, only international prohibitions on Brazilian beef or soy exports, or a marked global reduction in beef and other animal product demand, will have much impact.
Brazil has much to lose from Amazon deforestation. Only the atmospheric rivers of moisture from the Amazon prevent the La Plata basin from becoming scrubland or desert. But like most people in the world, they're not well enough informed to secure the welfare of their children and grandchildren.
Orbx t1_iuc28ui wrote
Brazil=Nauru
Nauru was completely destroyed by strip mining, and the money gained from it is long gone.
Wikipedia: led by founding president Hammer DeRoburt. In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phosphate Commissioners, and in June 1970, control passed to the locally owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation. Money gained from the exploitation of phosphate was put into the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust and gave Nauruans the second highest GDP Per Capita (second only to the United Arab Emirates) and one of the highest standards of living in the Third World.[26][
Modern-day Nauru. As its phosphate stores began to run out (by 2006, its reserves were exhausted), the island was reduced to an environmental wasteland. Nauru appealed to the International Court of Justice to compensate for the damage from almost a century of phosphate strip-mining by foreign companies.
DreamMaster8 t1_iucjc6r wrote
The thing is usa areant the one buying Brazilian beef. It's mostly asia, mainly china. And i don't see them wanting to stop.
Aardark235 t1_iujtijc wrote
I don’t see Americans reducing the amount the amount of tasty animals we eat. 250 lbs/pp/year is beyond excessive, leading to massive health issues.
We love to point fingers at countries with less than half that amount of per capita consumption.
sw_faulty t1_iucwbqb wrote
Animal corpses are a global commodity. Reduced demand anywhere will reduce supply everywhere.
r-reading-my-comment t1_iudw3os wrote
Alright, well this is also being cause by soy so get off that high horse.
And soy also relies on killing the hell out of any local fauna.
sw_faulty t1_iudwoxp wrote
Most soy is fed to animals
ManiacalDane t1_iuipbok wrote
Replace those animals with soy products
And... You know what you get?
A big old nothin' burger.
sw_faulty t1_iuir40g wrote
You get about a tenth as much arable land used for food
ManiacalDane t1_iuip8wf wrote
Soy is an even bigger commodity, and also incredibly damaging to the environment. :|
curlywurlyonmetummy t1_iuclhr0 wrote
Over 70% of their soy and beef go to China who I imagine don't care.
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