HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
Copyright © 2019 Alfredo Mensi
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Introduction
I have to be very honest about the aim of this article. The aim of this book is not only to explain the current situation of the Amazon rainforest and in general of the main inter-tropical rainforests.
I want to describe a project that I think could be able to stop or contain the destruction of an entire ecosystem.
If you want to read the proposed project without further introduction, you can skip this part and go straight to the section “The Project”; however, it is highly recommended to read these previous sections and in particular the section “A Focus” to understand the roots of the problems that this project aims to solve: civil exploitation and roads. If there is an interest to collaborate and get involved, read the section “Epilogue”.
During the article, it will be provided a to date picture of the Amazon rainforest, the main protagonists, the role of “indigenous” people and why in most of the cases the cost/productive efficience of the damaging of the forest is not efficient and convenient at all and couldn’t ever compete with the same activities elsewhere.
Will be also given a distinction between industrial and civil exploitation: both of them are important to be understood, distinguished and highlighted because, in different ways, they are both dangerous and critical. The main solution proposed is aimed to face the civil exploitation.
This article is intended to be first step for the foundation of a non-profit (or partial non-profit) company aimed to make a difference in the fight against the climate change. In my opinion, the solutions again big challenges like this should be real, practical, studied with a scientific approach to the problem: protesting and waiting for someone else to do something, protesting requiring an action without proposing an action and without proposing solutions for modern problems is not a solution and never will be. This book is a first step because it aims to introduce the project to as many people as possible, looking for enthusiasts, volunteers and organizations that aim to do the good to join this kind of “open source” project and “open source” company.
Introducing this article, I also want to assert that, in my opinion, the only way to do something for the environment (or for the people, in general for any problematic situation) is through the technology, the innovation and the economy. Without at least one of these, any proposed solution is almost always intended for failure or for short period effects.
Our world is run by economy and this is a fact, that’s why it would be absurd to not consider it: if you don’t provide an efficient replacement to the businesses that are now exploiting the environment, you will find out that it is nearly impossible to succeed, have a long lasting effect and be happily accepted by the local communities and the local governments. That’s why you can’t pretend people to leave their jobs for the environment without giving them an alternative and that’s why itis so difficult to make the local and state governments protect the rainforest. Economy can find an alternative and make possible an overall agreement that makes convenient protect the environment for everyone (local people, local communities, local governments, state governments).
On the other side, nowadays we have the means to make any idea and plan efficient thanks to the present technology and its fast innovative potential. That’s why it would be unthinkable to make anything without the help of it.
From control, to interactive security, to efficiency optimization, to fast emergency action and problem solving, to social presence and sensibilization, to global and community involvement, to logistics and distribution intelligence for the products, to advertise the successes and convince the communities on the edge of the Amazon rainforest to join the project and convert their exploiting based economies to a sustainable circular and more profitable economy.
Any project to improve the world should always consider the nature of the humankind. The most important thing is that if there is nothing to eat or any possibility to improve their lives, people will not consider any ideal or any pro-environment activity and if they do, it will be just for the circumstances and for a temporary earning (for example if you pay a former woodcutter to take tourists in Amazon tours, but you pay him just a little more than what he earned as woodcutter, he will not cut trees only because taking tourists around is easier, not because in this way the forest will remain conserved, so when there are not enough tourists, he will become again a woodcutter; a good project shall give welfare to an entire community as long as education means, only then the meaning and the importance of the project and the conservation can be fully understood.
It is really similar talking about the relation between the project and the local goverments: if the income and the production are enough to replace the current state of things, the goverments will stop boosting traditional explotation and will not impede an equally or more profitable change.
The description of the current rainforests situation will focus on the Amazon rainforest situation describing general aspects and current damaging situations, in particular about Ecuador rainforest (since I elaborated this travelling through the edges of that country rainforest and since I particularly saw the changes there during the last decade and lived the situations and the changes being half Ecuatorian from mother; being also half European and having lived most in Europe and having travelled a lot around the world, helped me to see things from another point of view).
An year of Ups and Downs for the Amazon rainforest
2019 (year in which this book has begun to be written) has been an highlighted year for the Amazon rainforest.
There have been significant victories and important losses for the environment.
As always, the losses always score a more significant importance in the world we live in as most of them produce permanent scars, while the victories sometimes are not forever-lasting or forever-remembered or simply even worldwide known (sometimes a good action or good idea doen’t have the proper space on the
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Alfredo Mensi
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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 15.01.2020
ISBN: 978-3-7487-2612-8
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