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Green going gone: The tragic deforestation of the Chaco
by Christine McDonald
Rolling Stones Translate This Article
28 July 2014
On 28 July 2014 Rolling Stones reported:
Monolithic agricultural companies are claiming they can practice sustainable farming in the heart of one of the world's most important wildernesses. The ravaged state of the Paraguayan Chaco forest is telling a different story. The Gran Chaco, which cuts across parts of Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, is Latin America's second most important forest, behind only the Amazon in terms of size and biodiversity. But while the Amazon has an institutional charity system fighting for its survival, hardly anyone outside of South America has heard of the Chaco. That PR void has allowed US-based agribusiness giants Cargill Inc., Bunge Ltd, and Archer Daniels Midland Co to aggressively expand in Paraguay with a minimum of international scrutiny or outcry. Sustainable business gurus praise those companies for having saved the Amazon, and the companies themselves say they've adopted conservation policies that prove it's possible to feed the world's exploding population without putting much more land into cultivation. In Paraguay, however, the opposite has occurred. The factory farming system has advanced across the country's most fertile areas. In the last decade alone, 2.5 million acres have been turned into soybean fields, displacing subsistence farmers and cattle barons alike. Last year alone, the Gran Chaco lost 914 square miles of forest, the equivalent, according to Yanosky's organization, Guyra, of 29 cities the size of Buenos Aires.
Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern environment systems.
Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.
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