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this david packard shelf had david packard dot com ecuador is optionee off
pieces of the amazon
that's bad enough that would have had enough already with but there are
cleaning up the chinese oil firms particularly concerning interesting
article about this in the guardian
ecuador is going to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine
amazonian rainforest the chinese oil companies
indigenous groups of course are upset
this really shows the uh... insatiable thirst for energy that exists in china
and really it's something to look forward to from the u_s_ is our
population continues to increase very concerning stuff yes this is uh...
i mean we know about what's happening in brazil with the rainforest right
so it was a of politicians from ecuador went to beijing they went to a hilton
hotel
and they started basically pitching bidding contracts two representatives
from chinese oil companies
and they had a bunch of of previous meetings there were a bunch of these you
know lobbyist type san executives and the blacks seated guys and they're
basically making a deal
to option
to the highest bidder
pieces of the amazon rainforest these are all within ecuador
and there are so many concerns that concern number one is were auctioned
enough natural resources to the highs better that's a concern
a particular concern is that auto companies are buying it and oil
companies also that are halfway around the world and don't really have that
much of a vested interest in the day to day effects of their operations in these
pieces of land that they're buying so this is just bay they wouldn't even care
when it's in their own country yeah i mean we have gone is we we know about
the huge
pollution problem that happens in china
so uh... a california-based ngo amazon watch says that there are at least seven
indigenous groups who live in this area who haven't consented to the oil
projects would be devastated if this were to turn into some kind of or oil
refinery development rilling type of operation
and this is just a disaster i mean on the one hand
you can make the argument you know all that money is going to help property
right you're going to
just put some money gila throw money at poverty the poverty rate will go down as
as a result of this
at the same time it will displace indigenous people
it's going to destroyed
natural resources how can you make the case though
to ecuador net on that they've really shouldn't do this because long term it's
not gonna make sense when they just need the money now
it's a very tough argument to make a specially
if they're being told that by countries that are already well off
so it's just
to telecom developing country you know
you know take care of the planet instead of uh... you know developing the country
it's very in the same with india and china it's very difficult to convince
them of that given that you know the ones that are polluting and have
polluted the environment
are the developed countries it's hard to believe lewis that environmental
argument is really going to convince anybody
well if you could somehow convince them that in the long term
uh... expanding their uh... the taurus m uh...
campaign and making their country safer
and uh... more
accessible city taurus in the long term would be just as effective when they
argue that a few of those things they would be able to do with the money fine
this piece of the rain forest
that's out
but they'd be able to take that money to improve public safety and make it more
excessive olin reduce poverty and make better areas for walking around i don't
know that they might still to come back with that
i mean but you you have to you have to somehow convince them that is
destruction of this land in the long term
it will just never make sense very disturbing stuff going on in ecuador