This is most likely another one of those email scams used to get your
individual email addresses and political preference information from a
group listserve. This is what the DELETE Key is for. Mike Miller
>
>Hello Samuel,
>
>There was no text but your statement in the SANET message on the
rainforest.
>Secondly, you already had 99 signers, which means everyone that signs sends
>the list on to Brazil.
>
>The statement "The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless
>without the
>
>forest itself." I do not believe is factual. The same statement could be
>said for any land taken out of forest or savanna, but in fact, it is the
>manner in which the land is managed that either decreases or increases its
>usefulness to humans and all life. Management of a rainforest climate
>demands emulating the growth, death, decay rebirth the climate and geography
>has dictated as creating stability for the regional environment. Any
climate
>and geography managed with patience and close observation can be made to
>benefit and better all sectors of the ecology including humans. Without
>question there are tradeoffs which degrade the quality of life for some
>lifeforms? Our purpose must be to maintain all lifeforms in a healthy
>environment.
>
>Expansion of human use of the environment is the course of why we are all
>here today. Certainly all citizens of Brazil should and must have a say,
and
>if possible an informed say, in how their land/water use should evolve. As
>to the question of whether global citizens should have say in Brazilian
>internal politics, I need more information. (Agricultural practices of the
>Midwest since 1900 to date have changed the atmospheric carbon content of
the
>entire world. Perhaps, it is time for global citizens to call on State
>legislatures and the Congress to bring the carbon level of the great plains
>back to 3 to 4.5% or higher as it was at the turn of the last century.) I
>imagine Brazilian citizens feel sovereign governments should be respected.
>But where the line demarcating sovereignty melts into international common
>interest is quite unclear. As a global citizen, I would like to know more
>about the language and intent of the legislation before the Brazilian
>legislature before making a decision to comment to the legislature. Can you
>direct me to informative sources?
>
>Best, Eric Kindberg
>Ripplebrook Organic Growers
>Fairfield, Iowa
>
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