My heart and eyes are full of tears at this moment.....why are those in power so stupid!! so blind!!???WHY??
The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the
beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte,
even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and
which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the
death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is
enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest,
an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous
and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species -
all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental
cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in
energy efficiency.
By: Thomas Doo Marmo
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