... and man is behaving like a virus. Some third world countries clear cut the land with a slash and burn technique to build roads or highways such as the massive Brazilian superhighway. This highway stretches to one end of Brazil to the other. However as with many of these roads it leads into the jungle and just ends. Billions and billions of trees and animals are killed ... need land to support their own growing populations. These countries are unable to build sky scrappers so they spread their cities into the jungle. These homes are merely shacks not really like a home though. All of the...

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... harmlessly extracting sap from rubber trees, which is then used in such products as car tires and pencil erasers. Rubber tapping is one of the many ways in which the resources of the Amazon are exploited without permanently harming the ecosystem. It is a sustainable agricultural system and Chico Mendes followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a rubber tapper. For major trans national ... 180 million years old. Not surprisingly, Mendes encountered a great deal of opposition from industrialists and corrupt government officials who were profiting from the tearing down of the Amazon. ...

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... a highly evolved group ecologically, exemplifying living in balance with the ecosystem. They cultivate many types of plants utilizing biological pest control. They domesticate and classify the insect life. All parts of the surrounding jungle are utilized by them for practical and medicinal purposes. The Kayapo belong to the Ge linguistic group that reside around the southern tributaries of the Amazon. They represent an ancient culture of seasonal farmers ... and gatherers. During the rainy season they live in highly complex wheel-shaped villages in ... ...

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... Brazil are extensive, and developed rapidly once capital and adquate transportation facilities became available in the 1970's. Coal is mined in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and elsewhere. A gold rush like in America is in the Amazon Jungle, it has been unabated since 1979, has made Brazil one of the world's largest producers. The country's iron deposits, at Itabira and elsewhere, are one of ... the world's richest. Iron-ore output was about 213 million metric tons in the early 1990's, which made Brazil the world's second largest producer (Encarta, Brazil). In conclusion Brazil ......

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... would be mandated to use. Even if instituted gradually, these changes could really make a difference. Usually, these efforts are in vain. The majority of people are not willing to make any drastic changes in their lives. Energy-efficient refrigerators and electric cars are available but they ... the makers of these alternatives to make them less expensive as capitalism is alive and well but it is possible to make average wasteful person, give up just one of life's indulgences for the sake of the future. Living in a jungle of concrete it's hard to appreciate what nature and the ... envi...

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... XVI). This natural cycle occurring in the Amazon produces a vital 1/5 of the world's oxygen (Ghitis). Such important products as: Brazil nuts, cocoa, curare (an important drug), pineapples, and rubber can be found within the confines of this dense jungle (Amazon 402). These important economical products are one of the reasons why the detrimental deforestation of the Amazon is taking place by the uncaring hands of big business and ... the governments that stand behind them in their efforts. The Brazilian government has decided to allow big business to cut millions of ... ...

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