Klaus Hart Brasilientexte

 http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2013/05/30/brasilien-nach-schwachem-quartals-bruttoinlandsprodukt-06-werden-wirtschaftliche-jahresprognosen-kraftig-korrigiert-statt-45-wachstum-nur-noch-etwa-2/

Wie es hieß, ist Auslandskapital zu 33 % an der Branche beteiligt, darunter Shell und Dreyfus. Sehr viele Ethanolfirmen seien hochverschuldet oder stünden kurz vor der Pleite. 2008 sei die Hälfte der brasilianischen PKW mit Ethanol gefahren, heute seien es nur noch 20 %.

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2012/11/06/brasilien-landesfernsehen-berichtet-uber-massives-abfackeln-der-riesigen-zuckerrohrplantagen-kurz-vor-der-ernte-dioxin-klimaschadliche-gase-entstehen-in-gigantischen-ausmasen-viel-lob-aus-deutsc/

Brasiliens stark angeschlagene “Biosprit”-Branche: Massive Radio-Propaganda ruft zum Tanken von Ethanol auf. **

tags: brasilien-ethanolherstellung, trittin und ethanol

Die stets auch in Mitteleuropa als angebliche Boombranche eingestufte Erzeugung von Ethanol aus Zuckerrohr ist seit einigen Jahren in zunehmenden Schwierigkeiten. 

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2012/11/06/brasilien-landesfernsehen-berichtet-uber-massives-abfackeln-der-riesigen-zuckerrohrplantagen-kurz-vor-der-ernte-dioxin-klimaschadliche-gase-entstehen-in-gigantischen-ausmasen-viel-lob-aus-deutsc/

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2012/08/23/jurgen-trittin-und-der-biosprit-rede-im-wortlaut/

http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/wissenschaft/1375344/

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2008/02/13/amazonia-an-ecocide-foreseen/

Frei Betto, katholischer brasilianischer Befreiungstheologe, Bestsellerautor und Kolumnist

”There is no sugar cane growing in Amazonia. We do not know of any such project in that region either recently or already established affirmed Reinhold Stephanes, the Minister for Agriculture, as he responded to the official rumour that sugar cane plantations are being kept a distance away from the forest. (O Globo 29th July 2007) Official data reveals that the planting of sugar cane advances through Amazonia in spite of the federal government™s denial. Sugar alcohol projects in Acre, Maranháo, Pará and Tocantins are experiencing increased expansion. The region not only is fertile, it is also competitive.  Lula was mistaken when he affirmed that sugar cane ”is a long way away from Amazonia”.

According to a survey by the Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (National Supply Co.) “ CONAB, linked to the Ministry of Agriculture – the cane harvest in Amazonia Legal “ which includes the states of Amazonas, Maranháo, Mato Grosso, Pará and Tocantins “ increased from 17.6 million tons to 19.3 million tons during 2007/2008.

Sugar cane cultivation in the Amazon also attracts foreign investors. The US pensioners™ Cooper Fund (investments) is now a member of the TG Agro Industrial Costa Pinto which produces alcohol in Aldeias Altas in Maranháo. In the municipality of Campestre in Maranháo, businessman Celso Izar of Maity Bioenergia is negotiating four projects with foreign investors each one having a budget of US$130 million, to produce 1.2 million tons of cane. The company produces a million tons at present. 

Greenpeace believes that the government is not capable of putting the prohibition of sugar cane planting in Amazonia into effect. Even with laws that prohibit it, how will the government be able to keep control? Prohibiting is not enough, it is necessary to inhibit planting. It would be much more efficient if the government were to put into effect what President Lula had considered: closing the tap on public banks to investors and stopping them from releasing funds. This would be the only way to stop new projects.

Another serious problem in the Amazon region is the illegal extraction of hardwood such as ipê, cedar, freijó, angelim, jatobá (all native to Brazil). Every day, 3.500 lorries circulate within the forest transporting illegal timber. Due to the world shortage the price per cubic metre paid by the loggers to the landowners for the timber extracted is on average R$25.00.  It is then sawed into boards or square blocks and exported.

This hardwood is sold in Europe by local merchants to the furniture industry or to ordinary consumers at a price equivalent to R$3200.00 the cubic metre. A difference of 1280%!! Brazil is the second largest exporter of timber in the world, after Indonesia.

During the past 37 years, since the dictatorship put the race towards Amazonia into effect, 70 million hectares have been deforested of which 78% are today taken up by 80 million head of cattle. However, Brazil profited only US$2.8 billion from the exported timber. This is less than what Embraer, the aircraft manufacturers, export in one year.

Cattle raisers cut down the trees in order to plant grass. The major beef producers  are precisely in the Pará municipalities where most of the deforestation takes place such as Sáo Félix do Xingu, Conceiçáo do Araguaia, Marabá, Redençáo, Cumaru do Norte, Ourilândia and Palestina do Pará. An interesting fact is that 62% of cases of slave labour occur on cattle ranches.

Large companies which possess vast tracts of land in Amazonia Legal cut down trees and plant eucalyptus which is transformed into charcoal for the region™s steel mills. They cut down the world™s richest tropical forest in biodiversity and plant the monoculture of eucalyptus which has no vegetal biodiversity at all and transform it into charcoal which increases global warming. As the companies grow, the nation is left with the onus of environmental degradation.

Amazonia is the victim of ecocide for the sake of capital gain. If society does not exert pressure and the government does not act, there will be a future Sahara in Amazonia, with serious consequences for humanity™s and the Earth™s survival.

*Frei Betto is a writer, author of ”Calendário do Poder (The Calendar of Power) (Rocco).

[1] <#_ftnref1>  Amazônia: large region in Northern South America, formed by the Amazon River basin and sustaining the largest equatorial forest in the world, the Amazon Forest.Amazônia Legal: comprising 5,035,747.80 square kilometers (61.2% of Brazil™s territory) and 3.5 million hectares of virgin forest and holding one fifth of the planet™s fresh water, 17 million hectares of reserves and national parks. It includes nine Brazilian states (Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranháo, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins) with a population of 20 million.Amazonas (AM) the largest state in Brazil, in the Northern region. Capital city: Manaus.About the Author

He is a Brazilian Dominican with an international reputation as a liberation theologian.
Within Brazil he is equally famous as a writer, with over 52 books to his name.  In 1985 he won Brazil™s most important literary prize, the Jabuti, and was elected Intellectual of the Year by the members of the Brazilian Writers™ Union.Frei Betto has always been active in Brazilian social movements, and has been an adviser to the Church™s ministry to workers in Sáo Paulo™s industrial belt, to the Church base communities, and to the Landless Rural Workers™ Movement (MST).In 2003-2004, he was Special Adviser to President Lula and Coordinator of Social Mobilisation for the Brazilian Government™s Zero Hunger programme.

Soja-Import nach Deutschland und die Folgen:  http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2012/09/06/soja-und-die-folgen-des-imports-nach-deutschland-in-die-schweiz-sogenannte-oko-parteien-pseudo-umweltverbande-und-die-realitat-hintergrund-wie-war-es-vor-der-soja-schwemme-in-welchen-deutschen-r/

Brasiliens Amazonas-Staudammprojekte und die angeblich saubere Energie aus Wasserkraft:http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/wissenschaft/1480331/

http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/wissenschaft/1081848/

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