I'm worried by this - our future is at stake on this planet ...
BBC News
Brazil opens vast Amazon reserve to mining. Brazil's government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining.
The area, covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapa and Para, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. The government said nine conservation and indigenous land areas within it would continue to be legally protected. But activists have voiced concern that these areas could be badly compromised. A decree from President Michel Temer abolished a protected area known as the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca).
Its size is larger than Denmark and about 30% of it will be open to mining.
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Short-term thinking is happening all over the world, mate - there's nothing we can do about it and either nuclear war or an environmental failure will be the death of the human race, probably within the next 2-300 years.
The cockroaches and rats will rule after that, pesky little buggers ..
Nothing surprises me today when it comes to big corporations. They are fracking for shale-gas just outside Blackpool despite constant protests. Lets see where the revenue streams end up from that one.
