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In those parts of the Amazon where people have seen the effects of paving, attitudes are also changing. Governor Viana and many of Acre?s citizens don?t want to see uncontrolled development spread through the rest of their wild and beautiful state, as it did through neighboring Rond?nia. ?Our...
There is plenty of evidence to support Nepstad?s concern. Almost every year, more and more of the rain forest is going up in smoke. In 1998, in the wake of the weather shifts brought on by El Ni?o?s warming the Pacific waters off South America, some 40,000...
There has also been a remarkable turnaround in Brazilian public opinion about the rain forest. In 1989, then President Jos? Sarney was defensive and defiant about criticism of Brazil?s failure to protect the Amazon; last June, by contrast, an outpouring of popular protest forced the Brazilian Congress to drop...
Across the board, Brazilian environmentalists and officials I spoke with were perplexed by how the paving of BR-364 was approved without normal review and comment. It is part of the 6,245-km road network that is scheduled to be paved in the Amazon as a section of the...
Viana does not so much come out against roads?suicide for any politician?as offer alternative ways to meet the aspirations of Acre?s citizens. He argues that Acre?s many navigable waterways offer a commercial connection to markets without the risk of deforestation. To deal with emergencies, the state...