[QUOTE=theaceattourney;40615949]Isn't it a good thing that agriculture is failing in the Amazon? Won't the farmers realize it is ineffective and stop cutting down trees for land?[/QUOTE]
Not unless there's greater knowledge of what they stand to lose from the loss of rainforest. The fact that Brazil's losing its grip on its ability to keep farmers in check is a very bad sign. They've always had to concede a little bit to farmers and corporate interests but those people are demanding more and more as crop yields kinda suck nowadays. That means they have to exploit more land for more cultivation to break even. Until they realize "Wait a second, we won't have any rainforest left at this rate," people might seriously damage the rainforest beyond repair.
So for us, yes, but for them, who knows if they even care?
[QUOTE=Bradyns;40603367]I'm still at how incredibly short sighted humanity is...
Taking advantage of a quick fix knowing very well that the tribulation will be tenfold more difficult in the future.
I see it in myself, and it sickens me; I'm a micro component of a macro problem.[/QUOTE]
" 50 years until severe climate changes happen? Not my problem, I'll be dead then, but I can be rich now!
It's much like agriculture in the more primitive societies.
Instead of trying to improve the land, they expand and expand until they cannot cultivate any more land.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40616202]It's much like agriculture in the more primitive societies.
Instead of trying to improve the land, they expand and expand until they cannot cultivate any more land.[/QUOTE]
Considering that in Latin America some farming methods literally have not changed since Pre-Columbian times, it's not all that surprising that it's happening now. When we studied the Mayan city-state of Copan in Guatemala, there are ethnic Maya still there performing the same sort of farming that the ancient Maya did, and we suspect that the Maya there had crashed in the first place because they'd overfarmed their land beyond its carrying capacity until they just didn't have any that they could use..
In that case, it was to keep their peasant workers fed to work on monumental architecture. Obviously, today it's because the crops are being sold for commercial enterprise so it's even larger-scale.
I'd really wanna visit the amazon before there's little left of it to be called a rainforest anymore.
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