Amazon rainforests.

[Finless]

I just rcv'd the below message by email. I checked on Google for more information and all the information I could find related to 1999/2000.

Has this just been endlessly circling the world since then? Is there any point in completing it?

Any advice would be appreciated. Of course I am in favour of protection but I don't want to waste my/other peaples time with a pointless chain email.

Tks
Bryan



Dear all,

The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the

Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but

PLEASE put your name on the list and forward this on as instructed below.

First, some facts:

* The Amazon rainforest is responsible for:

* the generation of 20% of the oxygen that we on this earth breathe.

* 30% of the world's freshwater is contained within the Amazon basin.

* 60% of the cancer fighting drugs used today are derived from plants that

can only be found within the Amazon rainforest.

* The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be

mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock.

All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood

chips, by large multinational companies. The truth is that the soil in the

Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very

acidic and the region is prone to constant floods. At this time more than

160,000 square kilometres deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and

in the process of becoming deserts, meaning that this proposal is in the

short-term interests of a few, and in the long term interests of none.

Please copy the text into a 'new e-mail' put your complete name in the list

below, and send to everyone you know.

(DON'T JUST FORWARD IT - AS IT WILL THEN END UP WITH ROWS AND ROWS of '>'s).

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by Finless

... Is there any point in completing it?
....

No.

If you did manage to save the Brazilian forest (and you will not) the Russians are about to cut down the Siberian forests.

Plant a tree in your garden Bryan.

Chris

[Finless]

Originally Posted by chrisch

Plant a tree in your garden Bryan.

Chris

As soon as I cut down the existing ones!

[chrisch]

If you are that short of space plant one in the neighbour's !!!!

(Tree that is!!!)

Chris

[Scuba1]

That is OK as long as they use non leaded fuel in their chain saws.


Michael

[lizardfish]

This e.mail is a hoax - pls. don't bother!!!! L.

google "Brazil rainforest email"