AMEN, BROTHER:

Brazilian president says 'gringos' must pay to protect Amazon (Associated Press/guardian.co.uk, 27 November 2009)

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was speaking before an Amazon summit at which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrialised world to halt deforestation, which contributes to global warming.

"I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree," Lula said. "We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago."

The Al Gore's among us want all the benefits of industrialization but to deny same to others. There ought to be a cost.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 27, 2009 8:00 AM