Ecuador to sell a third of its amazon rainforest to Chinese oil companies
 

Bye bye rainforest.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ecuad...o-china-2013-3

Lame lame

rainforest doesnt pay the bills. if the world wants to keep it, they should have purchased it.

everytime i read something like this i want to punch the person who wrote it

Ultra rich people can afford to live lavishly underground when the shit hits the fan so they don't give a shit about the planet if they can make a dime.

But he is right. Look how much money the big environemntal organisations have. But most of the money end in the pockets of (corrupt) governments and in the pockets of the managers. The same happens in other counbtries, depending of money from China. Big infrastructurual projects they finance. They give the money and workers, the country/city pays the Chinese back (if they can). And else you see what could happen. Here also, big highways, new harbours and new railways (to a Uranium mine). Good luck with that, in 15 years this will be a no-go area.

I am so happy I didn't have kids. Things are really going to get ugly over the next 20 years.

While he is right, I agree with you. The whole situation pisses me off to no end.

If not our children, our grandchildren are going to live in hell. We're passing along an enormous pile of shit that is only getting worse.

I'll bet people 20 years ago said that too -- although we do have some shit going on these days that the past can't compete with.

Visit Ecuador before the sale goes through. Sad to hear about this. They have no idea what is coming...Maybe someone from Ecuador should take a boat ride down the Yellow River.

Our grandchildren, if they survive at all, will despise their grandparents for the coming years.

Yes, but at some point it will all come to a head. Humans can't continue their path of destruction forever.

$7 billion.

In the big picture, that's not that much money. Bill Gates could make a few phone calls rounding up his buddies to pay off that debt. Seems like a much better bang for his charity dollars.

Which explains why they are building a canal across Nicaragua; they won't have to bother with Panama.

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+1 :2 cents:

Why would my grandchildren despise me?

Bunch of dirt poor hispanics in Ecuador selling to the Chinese who don't give a fuck.

They should despise the Ecuadorian and the Chinese govt.'s for this one.

Or maybe we could send the U.S. military in and stop it?

Hell...think of how much pollution we've thrown up in the air in just the last two decades of blowing people up with bombs and missiles.

Also we pretty much wiped out the entire Vietnamese jungle with napalm during the Vietnamese War. Wasn't that an ecological disaster? Thousands of miles of jungle burnt. All the animals that lived there killed.

But somehow...it all grew back.

My point is that the U.S. govt. lives in a glass house. The govt. tries to preach it's holier than thou message to dirt poor countries about the environment...but we've been the worst abuser of the world's environment than anybody else. That is when it suits our govt.

When it doesn't? We suddenly get all "concerned".

Fucking politicians in Washington D.C. are no better than the tinpot dictators in South America.

Washington, DC is saying "Hey, we made our money by raping the environment...but YOU can't"

not a smart thing to do

Yes, that is why i also think it is better to create an environmental company and buy it. Same in Borneo. A lot of rainforest disappears cause they need the wood and for 'sustainable''eco friendly Palm Oil and soja oil in the western world.

"Borneo's rainforests went to industrialized countries like Japan and the United States in the form of garden furniture, paper pulp and chopsticks. Initially most of the timber was taken from the Malaysian part of the island in the northern states of Sabah and Sarawak. Later forests in the southern part of Borneo, an area belonging to Indonesia and known as Kalimantan, became the primary source for tropical timber. Today the forests of Borneo are but a shadow of those of legend."

They will hate our generation - We are too hung up on borders...

I hope that will change as well - We are all human and we all live on one planet - Holism - Read about it.....

5 years ago I flew over the Malaysian part an it's amazingly sad to see how much is gone. I feel lucky that I was able to at least see and visit part of Borneo before all is gone.

I am honestly thankful that I never had kids. Why would anyone want to bring a child into this world? This planet is becoming a fucking toilet. What will it look like in 30 years? Do you really want to subject another human being to such misery? Non-existence is preferable to that shit.

Not even just the US. Other countries are just as bad.

Like someone else said, $7bn is a joke; absolute fucking peanuts.

Other countries may have raped the planet...but none of them are a hypocritical as our U.S. govt. is about it when dealing with other countries.

There is a coming oil boom for shale etc in the midwest and uppermidwest and northwest, Canada too. Lets see what happens. Fracking has already fucked up the ground water and caused constant earth tremors in souheast US and PA and West Virginia. So bad in Arkansas they had to stop.

Humans are cockroaches.

When I say our, I mean the collective our, of this generation/time period.

If it would help the planet to heal and regain growth. if animal species would stop going extinct at alarming rates, I would gladly return to a simpler time.

Pretty much. Unless we change direction fast.

despise the fucking polluting Chinese, morelike.

Shit like this makes me so angry, these are the lungs of the world FFS!