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Of all the acts of organized violence on this planet which are a direct result of human greed perhaps the most obvious long term campaign of cruelty is being conducted against the rainforest peoples of the Amazon Basin. How many Indians have died? We all think of Brazil and its notable corruption but the problem extends into all the countries in this massive river basin. Companies from every western country and now 'investors' (please read 'exploiters') from Asian countries are joining in. The local governments and their financiers have been slicing up this juicy pie as long as there have been foreigners in the area.
Go to this website to get an idea of how little a multi-national cares about how it gets what it wants http://rainforests.net/amazonpollutionvictimsoftoxico.htm
There are many websites devoted to saving the rainforest and there is a lot of information there about the human side of this. Quite apart from the fact that we will all be affected if fools destroy the 'Lungs of the World", they are also killing or otherwise causing the death of thousand of real humans who bleed and break just like you. Can you feel it? Do you have shares in a company that is doing that? Do you know what the human cost of that nice mahogany table in your living room was? There are so many costs involved that to allow this destruction so some big nose shiny bum in New York can make himself even wealthier is totally, utterly unacceptable. Why do our governments not make legislation forbidding any person or company under their jurisdiction from taking part in this massacre of Indians and perhaps, in the end, of our own grandchildren. Read about it, think about it. If some of you answer my last question with the words, 'we do legislate', then ask the question 'why don't we enforce that legislation?'
Did you ever have the experience of being bullied at school? Imagine that experience magnified a hundredfold and even to the point of you being killed. Go to a horror movie and think of rainforest people who have those experiences and worse... NO! Not the big snakes! PEOPLE! Sick individuals paid to have their fun by people in suits in London, New York, Ottawa, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, etc.... Maybe you work for them. Maybe you know a way to stop them but want more money yourself. Can you live with that?
Let's get this straight, the people who live their lives like the characters in 'Sex and the City', 'Will and Grace', etcetera are getting their wealth directly or indirectly from the financial structure that exploits the poor of the world and even kills them to feed itself. The archetypes that drive the system are clearly related to the monsters in movies and their behaviour is much clearer in the movies than in the devious world they really live in. Don't be fooled, corporations eat real people.