Amazonian Rain Forest Protection

BRAZIL'S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SITUATION

Brazil has experienced and continues to experience serious economic and social problems. Some people in the first world tend to view Brazil as a country out of control. Such judgements, however, are made by people residing comfortably in developed economies, with little understanding or appreciation of what is required to move the world's sixth largest country (population), and tenth largest economy (gross national product) from the status of a developing country to that of an economic power. Most of the world's developing countries have a net external debt in 1990. Some of these countries, however,

1 2have a much larger external debt than do others. Brazil is thelargest debtor in the Third World, with an external debt approximating US$108 billion (The World Bank, 1989).

External debt has a major impact on the ability of

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same countries for endangering the environment. It often appears to Brazilians that the developed countries, and their surrogates, such as the International Monetary Fund, and The World Bank, will be satisfied only by policies which make conditions even more difficult for the poorest Brazilians. Thecountry is not likely to accept such conditions. Brazil is committed to economic growth, and, if the Amazonian rain forestis to be protected and preserved, the developed countries will be required to shoulder a part of the cost of the effort. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT As is typically the case, the developed countries of the worldthe United States in particularattempt to apply double standards to the developing countries. It is certainly true in 1990 that the Amazonian rain forest is responsible for an enormous proportion of the clean air and fresh water for the entire world. One reason for the enormous role played by the Amazonian rain forest in these environmental events, however, is that the forests of Europe and of the eastern and midwestern United States were decimated from 100 to 600 years ago in the name of economic developmentthe very act for which Brazil is being 6condemned in 1990! Fu
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