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12 minutes
Subtitle: THE DECADE OF DESTRUCTION -- CLASSROOM VERSION
6 video programs /10 -19 minutes each /Grades 6-12
Produced by Adrian Cowell
The first nail in the coffin of the rainforest is always a
road. First comes a surveyor, then bulldozers, then loggers, then
a small settlement, and finally farm families. In Rondonia the
name of the road was BR364. Jose Lutzenberger, Brazil's best
known environmentalist, points out the incredible inefficiency of
the region's economy which is totally dependent on imported
energy. It's a system that cannot last. Before long all the
valuable wood will have gone. Cattle ranches are already proving
unsuccessful. Cash crops like cocoa are vulnerable to Amazonian
diseases. So far 60% of the land that was cleared is now
abandoned. Is this development?
Subject Areas: RAINFORESTS, DEVELOPMENT, SOUTH AMERICA, ECONOMICS,
BRAZIL, WORLD BANK
ISBN: 1-56029-355-1
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