Tell Brazil Rio+20 Host: “The World We Want” Is Not 60 Amazon Rainforest Destroying Dams
ACTION ALERT PLEASE SEND, SHARE, LIKE, FORWARD! By Rainforest Portal http://www.rainforestportal.org/ – a project of Ecological Internet June 20, 2012 TAKE ACTION To protect the Amazon with sustainable development based upon standing rainforests: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=brazil_xingu Brazil’s government – host of the “Rio+20” UN Conference on Sustainable Development devoted to sustainable development and sustaining ecosystems – is planning to build 60 dams on tributaries to the Amazon -- including the controversial $11 billion Belo Monte project. Industrial destruction of intact primary rainforest ecosystems based upon ecocide and genocide is not “the world we want” – a motto of Rio+20. These plans for massive Amazon dam construction reveal Brazil’s meaningless rhetoric regarding environmental sustainability and sustainable development, as they hypocritically continue destroying key regional and global ecosystems. Brazil’s decep