What kind of world would allow governments to sell public land to giant corporations, so they can profit on the destruction and exploitation of natural resources and vital forested areas? The answer is; the world we live in. All over the world, profit hungry companies have engaged in aggressive and destructive practices that disrupt natural ecological processes. Human economies are often dependent upon the extraction, processing, and sale of those natural resources. Often, those whom profit from such actions fail to account for the damage upon habitats, and the wildlife contained within. Unsustainable practices such as forest clear cutting, large scale mining operations, and inconsiderate land use has contributed to a human-first, world-last mentality that must end immediately, lest the world find out just how meaningless money really is compared to the importance of natural areas on which humans depend.
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Currently, governments around the globe are failing at that objective. In a recent New York Times article entitled Brazilian Judge Stymies Plan to Allow Mining in Amazon Region, writers Ernesto Londono and Shannon Sims discuss the intricacies of government and a mining company seeking to mine large areas of the Amazon forest. In this case, Brazilian president Michel Temer sought to open mining of specific areas of the Amazon. However, environmental activists felt a sigh of relief on August 30th when a federal judge, Judge Ronaldo Valcir Spanholo, concluded that the executive branch, led by President Temer, “…had exceeded its authority in rescinding the designation of a 17,700-square-mile region known by the Portuguese acronym Renca as a protected area through a presidential decree.” The judge, rightly so, had concluded that only the Brazilian congress could rescind the protections of that
Currently, governments around the globe are failing at that objective. In a recent New York Times article entitled Brazilian Judge Stymies Plan to Allow Mining in Amazon Region, writers Ernesto Londono and Shannon Sims discuss the intricacies of government and a mining company seeking to mine large areas of the Amazon forest. In this case, Brazilian president Michel Temer sought to open mining of specific areas of the Amazon. However, environmental activists felt a sigh of relief on August 30th when a federal judge, Judge Ronaldo Valcir Spanholo, concluded that the executive branch, led by President Temer, “…had exceeded its authority in rescinding the designation of a 17,700-square-mile region known by the Portuguese acronym Renca as a protected area through a presidential decree.” The judge, rightly so, had concluded that only the Brazilian congress could rescind the protections of that