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http://www.truthout.org/061109B#comment-60552
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The Peruvian Amazon raisnforest is being taken down in huge swaths by machinery.
The Indeigenous people who depend on it are protesting the movement of that machinery into their age-old home.
The Peruvian Government [President Alan Garcia] directed police to dispatch, and if necessary, to kill the protesters.
And that is what happened. At least 100 dead natives are the first deadly result. There may be more by the time you read this.
These protesters might be blockading the roads for their own reasons, but in doing so they are helping all of us because the Amazon Rainforest is the "land-based lungs of the world", and in this time of pollution and global warming, we need all the earthly lungs we can get, or save.
Some Rainforest facts:
"More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin."
"More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest." {the ocean produces the most oxygen and absorbs the most CO2}
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I wonder if there is a corporate connection to Canada? Logging and the lumber industry just might have investments down there. If so, we have a hand in these deaths.