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19 minutes
Subtitle: THE DECADE OF DESTRUCTION -- CLASSROOM VERSION series
6 video programs /10 -19 minutes each /Grades 6-12
Produced by Adrian Cowell
It was Brazil's politicians who saw the Amazon as the answer to
their prayers. Here was the world's richest storehouse of raw
materials and all over Brazil were millions of poor people who
would come to help exploit it. The main obstacle was that the
BR364 road was unpaved. So they went to the World Bank to finance
the project, known as Polonoroeste. Jose Lutzenberger opposed it
and took his fight to the U.S. Congress. He felt it was vital that
provisions be made for the protection of the forests, Indians and
rubber tappers. Eventually the World Bank was forced to admit
their mistakes, but in the meantime hundreds of thousands of
square miles of rainforest were burned. The 1989 election brought
a new president, Fernando Collor, who appointed Jose Lutzenberger
as the Minister of the Environment and gave him orders to stop
deforestation in Amazonia. With the help of satellite photographs
and helicopters the battle to save the world's richest heritage of
biodiversity and evolution has begun.
Subject Areas: RAINFOREST, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES,
ENVIRONMENT, BRAZIL, AMAZON
ISBN: 1-56029-361-6
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