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Brazil Scraps Bid to Mine Amazon Natural Reserve

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-you-dig-it? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Brazilian government backed off a controversial proposal to authorize private companies to mine a sprawling Amazon reserve Monday after blistering domestic and international criticism.

President Michel Temer's office will issue a new decree Tuesday that "restores the conditions of the area, according to the document that instituted the reserve in 1984," the Ministry of Mines and Energy said in a statement.

Last week, environmental activist group Greenpeace said at least 14 illegal mines and eight clandestine landing strips were already being used by miners in the Denmark-sized reserve known as Renca in the eastern Amazon.

Greenpeace said this showed the risks faced by Renca even without Temer's earlier proposal for ending a ban on large-scale foreign mining in the mineral-rich region.

Temer's decree signed on August 25 on opening up Renca—rich in gold, manganese, iron and copper—was suspended days later after an international outcry.

Mining condoned by the government will not happen, but illegal mining will continue?

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:01PM (#574060)

    You have to break some eggs to make an omelet.

    Despite lovely beautiful nature, stone age times were brutal. Stopping industrial efforts would cause billions of people to die.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Acabatag on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:00PM (1 child)

    by Acabatag (2885) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:00PM (#574084)

    Billions of people will die. In fact, the more people who are born, the more that will die. That's just the deal.

    So it's not worth holding over our head that 'billions of people will die' when the real message is: 'billions of people will not procreate to produce billions more people to totally overwhelm the planet like green algae overwhelms a swimming pool.'

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:28AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 28 2017, @06:28AM (#574249) Journal

      when the real message is: 'billions of people will not procreate to produce billions more people to totally overwhelm the planet like green algae overwhelms a swimming pool.'

      You do realize that we have a solution - the developed world has negative population growth among everyone who is second generation or beyond. How about we try something that works rather than disasturbation fantasies?