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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (40614)	10/31/2003 7:45:28 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Pulsating. Not disappearing. Population expands between 1850 reaches a peak by about 2070 and then starts fast contracting. During this brief period of time -200 years is nothing in the whole time scale- a growing population seeks new territory and start reaching the fringes of the jungle. Then two factors stops man proceeding: New technology, (development of new seeds) allows to plant in the Cerrado area and Southern Mato Grosso. First slows the intruding into the jungle. Then stops, then starts returning back and leaving the jungle there. Jungle grows back in a a couple of decades you don't know man was there. We build the Madeira-Mamore railway and today you can't see anything the jungle bites back and cover everything. (Look to Mount Saint Helens blow up to see how nature recovers. Look to the Sahara desert when one year of freak rain dumps water there. The place gets green immediately!!) The Green Hell, as we call the Amazonian jungle, is inhospitable. With diseases, crawlies, and a climate that makes Alaska seem enjoyable, (How about an yearly 2.600mm rain fall and +33C degrees all the time?), long distances that make a bottle of beer, a gas bottle, or a bag of cement at stratospheric cost. Now you it becomes clear that it is not economic to exploit that area. But we need new markets for the agricultural products so that we have a modern farm sector. Hence Brazil fights very hard for countries like the US and Europe to open their markets for the agricultural products. Because we can produce 2 and half crops a year, compared with the three month grow period in the Northern hemisphere. A robust far sector prevents man to invading the jungle on slash and burning. This thing is very complex a the average contributor to Greenpeace don't have the grasp of the whole issues to vent an opinion.