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19 Jun 2012 00:30 #90001
by chairman
Belo Monte Dam will be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric project and will displace up to 20,000 people while diverting the Xingu River and flooding as much as 230 square miles of rainforest in Brazil. The Brazilian government says residents forced to relocate will be compensated and that most will benefit from the relocation. Opponents of the dam are skeptical of this claim.
While environmentalists and indigenous groups oppose the dam, many Brazilians support the project. The Brazilian Amazon, home to 60 percent of the world’s largest forest and 20 percent of the Earth’s oxygen, remains threatened by the rapid development of the country. The area is currently populated by over 20 million people and is challenged by deforestation, agriculture, mining, a governmental dam-building spree, illegal land speculation including the occupation of forest reserves and indigenous land and other issues.
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19 Jun 2012 10:05 #90005
by mapoui
it is of course a jackass project, environmentally destructive, hardly the best most efficient way to max out power production.
given the displacement of so many people and their way of life it is a crime against humanity and the government of Brasil should be brought up on such charges before relevant tribunals
there is no good reason to build that dam in this day and age save for the profit of corporations and elites, scrounging money of the backs of their own people, piling huge, insupportable debt upon them. it is a severe and rapacious form of exploitation of the people that no longer as any efficacy at all
such projects are chosen for reasons like:
huge projects for influential construction conglomerates
the big banks love them for they incur great debt by the government, piled on the backs of ordinary people through the national debt
politicians love them because of the kickbacks from the banks, from big construction and all the corporations that make huge profits form such a project.
costing billions many companies flourish and so feed the politicians in turn.
they solidify the revolving door policy between politicians, decision makers, academy, government and big business...all on the backs of the people who must work to pay the taxes used to pay off the debt
also to get the people off land big landowners want to steal, for far more land than is necessary for the project is taken at the same time. also the environmental changes that take place from the new dam, are also profitable in the long run and those are also set aside for big business..especially tourism and resort construction..
disgusting and destructive opportunities for profit never end for the elites from schc projects...but are endlessly expensive for the people.
it is time to end capitalism that business model is old and out of sync with current knowledge of the world and human expertise. to continue to make profit capitalism must continue doing business in this old nasty, stinking, destructive - as in environmentally unsound - and pointless ways...literally destroying nations and ultimately the planet, just for the profit of a small minority of humans who now dominate world society.
it is time to toss the business model and those who control it. lock up a lot of them too for crimes against humanity :police: :police: :police:
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