15th October 2011: Global Manifestation

15th October, this weekend, all around the world happened peaceful manifestations done by ordinary people who demanded a true democracy and transparency in political decisions that affect us all, this is a manifestation with no political party, it's just a manifestation done by everybody that wants to fight this global system of corruption, social inequality, modern slavery, precariousness work conditions and living. This is for all people that are tired of tolerate and accept the decisions done by politicians who only serve the interests of the richer, this is for everyone that won't accept the privatization of natural resources like water in order to enrich even more the business men. This is for everyone that is not willing to prescind from their rights of education, health, drinking water, a place to live...and this is for everyone that fights to ensure their rights and the rights of the others.
I just couldn't be out of such a big world event, me too made part of the first manifestations against this hideous global system.
I want a society fair and peaceful for everyone, a society that respects the rights of every people on the world and that respects too nature and all it's living beings.
I fight for peace worldwide and for an ecological and eco sustainable society...for that this capitalist financial and economical model has to fall, let's crash this system!
I just felt pity for having to go to that manifestation alone because no one of my numerous fellows care about the world, they just live happy in their little bubble and think they have nothing to do with what is going on all around the world.
But I won't stop doing the thinks I want and I think that are important because I just know idiots.
If this system doesn't fit the 99% why should we accept it?
The system is about to crash, all those lies can't be hidden much longer. I can hear the sweet whistle of global change...yes, it's coming, we're the 99% and we're stronger!

LET'S DO IT!

Famine is the real obscenity

A message from Care2 petition site:


"ONE's new public service announcement 'The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity'has been banned from being broadcast in the UK. 

The ad aims to focus the world's attention on the famine and food crisis in the Horn of Africa, aiming to save millions of lives from slow, cruel starvation. 

Apparently Clearcast claims it does not comply with rules covering political advertising in the UK, despite the fact that ONE is not a political party and has no political affiliation. 

The broadcasting code is meant to keep political propaganda off British television, but the ONE ad is about giving a voice to the 750,000 people in east Africa who the UN warns could die before the end of the year. 

We need to act now. Tell those responsible for the clearance of television adverts:Don't stand in the way of support for those suffering from the crisis in east Africa. "

I hope you sign the petition, I signed it too but still I have some flaws to point:


So it's really nonsensical United Kingdom have banned this add from TV's since it was approved in the USA (which have the biggest amount of fat people on Earth) and since UK media is so but so so much sensationalist (does this word exists?), I mean UK media talks about lots of meaningless stuff and exposes people's lives at the extreme just to explore someone else's misfortune! I don't live in Uk, but I've been there and I can tell, also in Algarve (south Portugal) the stationery shops everywhere sell media for english tourists...it's really bad media with almost no message in all that...it's a piece of shit let's talk the way things are, but not all media I'm talking about tabloids and newspapers as the Mirror or the Sun...I even get shocked to see people buying and reading that!
So why not talk about starvation in the world?
Is it more important to talk about the weight loss and weight gain of famous people or what Kate Middleton wears? Give me a break!


That's right we're letting 750 000 famine people dying slowly of hunger in Somalia while our taxes pay for NATO to invade and destroy countries and kill civilians because us (the Occident) we are the ones who really know what democracy is and we want to go in "peace" missions to that countries and free their people from tyrants, well you know sometimes we have to kill one or two, two hundred or two thousands people...but in the end is okay 'cause we made them a favour and now we will  give them loans to reconstruct their country, as the payment we gently ask for cheap oil and other superfluous things...aren't we cool????


Acoording to ONU 1,3 million of tons of food, 1/3 of the total produced in the world are thrown away each year although only in 2010, 925millions of people were affected by hunger.

see Africa's face?

Well I hope you had noticed I was being sarcastic, very sarcastic...but in a way that's the way media and politicians want you to think about NATO and fellows... and it's wrong!´
It's clear more than ever that colonization still exists! 
But skip to that part it's so much more thrilling to gossip about the famous people living at the lap at luxury. Well, the same people that made this video to tell us to go fuck ourselves...


But this is a very very fucking video in all ways, so I take this opportunity to say: "fuck you!" to the fellow people/ countries/ folks and the world itself:


*FUCK YOU USA for being the XXXL size nation, FUCK YOU USA for throwing away millions of tons of food ( each year just in USA 25 millions of tons of comestible food (25 000 000 000 kg!)  are thrown away by americans and 70 million of tons of food in good conditions are thrown away by supermarket chains). FUCK YOU USA too for consuming  between 25% and 40% of natural resources and being just 5% of human population on Earth.

*FUCK YOU USA and Europe for using citizens taxes to pay NATO horror missions.

*FUCK YOU MEDIA for just tell people about stupid dumb issues and fuck too the dumb people that listen to you too.


*FUCK YOU  famous selfish persons that rather spend their money in their frivolities than in helping the others, those who pay hundreds for their glamour dinners (that have almost no food in the dishes), those famous people that almost don't eat to fit in skinny dresses and even get sick for doing that (anorexic and bulimic is so fashion, isn't it?).

STARVING TO BE SEXY IS THE NEW WAVE! C'MON WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? BE A SKINNY BITCH!

Those famous people that spend millions in expensive clothes (including of course true fur clothes), clothes that they only wear once to appear in the media...while hundreds of children have no clothes to dress (you might want to read this: royal-solidarity).


So yeah, FUCK YOU for then making videos and songs (like "We are the World" or "What's going on" about starvation and show how kind you all are! Fuck all of your campaigns and all your fake charities.

Honestly if there is a celebrity in charity adds I tend to not help the cause since I think most part of celebrities are trully hypocrites, I just don't need a fuckin' famous celebrity saying me that I must help, because I do help, lots of anonymous people help while they spend the days thinking about how to spend their millions...just give it all away, dah!
Anyway I don't feed their ego, true global changes are made by ordinary people...so I get really disgusted when I hear "we are the world" song. It's really hypocrit!

So once again FUCK YOU!


FUCK THE SYSTEM!

Save the planet Earth

I'LL KEEP ON TRYING UNTIL MY DYING DAY

Tomorrow I'll see the magnificent concert of Within Temptation, I'll let you with this amazing music video about Earth, Mother Earth:

"Birds and butterflies

Rivers and mountains she creates

But you'll never know

The next move she'll make

You can try

But it is useless to ask why 

Cannot control her

She goes her own way

She rules until the end of time

She gives and she takes

She rules until the end of time

She goes her way

With every breath

And all the choices that we make

We are only passing through her way

I find my strenght

Believing that your soul lives on

Until the end of time

I'll carry it with me

Until you know my dear

You don't have to fear

A new beggining always starts at the end

Until you know my dear

You don't have to fear

Until the end of time

Until the end of time

Until the end of time

She goes her way"

Succes: Mattel drops Rainforest Destruction

Fantastic news today! I received this newsletter from greenpeace and I get incredibly happy, as happy as I wasn't for a long long time! We made it! We won!
Yes, signing a simple petition, spreading the word, showing that you really care, but most important: beleiving in the change!
Well I wrote two posts about this subjects ( Barbie is barbaric  and we're still waiting for Mattel to drop off rainforests) and a few days later the last post saying that: "hey, we're still waiting for Mattel to stop deforestation! Yeah we didn't forgot!", we made it come true!
I wrote a post to make people aware of the importance of the rainforests:  Rainforests
 I get really concerned about the destruction of rain forests because we're losing that irreplaceable treasure day by day, endangering wild species for what...to wrap Barbies? For God sake! Of course that makes no sense and the all, all the fathers and mothers on the world don't want to give to their kids toys that were implied in deforestation...that were implied in the destruction of this wonderfull world where parents put their kids on! Isn't that true?
Now Mattel will start using recycled paper to wrap Barbies and stop deforestation!
Inform more here: greenpeace

So we made people! I want to thank everyone that acted to stop this, that cared for this, I wannna thank Greenpeace for warn people worldwide about this issues and get people together to save the planet, I wanna thank everyone that supports Greenpeace and I wanna thank people in general for making me believe that human kind is not a monster and our planet can have a future...with life!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

THANK YOU!!!

October hell: where is the Autumn?

Have you had fun at the beach today? Well, they didn't!

It's 5th October, Portugal, Lisbon, North Hemisphere, Autumn...but the thermometers register 33ºC! And it's been like this even after summertime (during all september and now in October, and it will be like this a few more days). If I lived in a tropical country as Brazil, even in Winter, these temperatures could be normal...but not in a mediterranean country!
We're suffering a new heat wave, and the people seem to like it!
Well it's a national holiday: the implementation of the Republic and the end of the Monarchy in 1910, here's what happened: someone shooted  the king dead and the Republic was established so the Monarchy ended. Not much as a republican but more like an anti-monarchy in 21st century I must admit that this bloody action  (which I do not agree at all) at least made possible to stop the king's sons to require the throne, as the result we stopped the continuation of the offspring of that hideous social parasites that's called monarchy for all the eternety here.
Contrary most part of European countries still having a royal family and a king or a queen as a Head of State (United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Greece...you name it!). Well I think that having a royal family as a Head of State is so old fashioned and nonsensical 'cause they're so out of the society: they don't work, they don't pay the taxes...they're not useful for the society!
Listen, I'm not against their simple existence, I'm against they don't work and pay taxes receiveing amounts of the peoples' meoney for their luxuries!
But fortunatelly I live in a developed country, at this level.
Well but I'm not here to talk about my anti-monarchy ideals.
I'm here to talk about this unnatural weather, last year by this time I was wearing a coat, a scarff, jeans, tenis and now I'm wearing sandals, dresses or shorts and t-shirts!
As a holiday portuguese people went happily to their wonderful beaches which got full of people, and they were so happy of diving in the ocean and catch sunlight! But that's so out of season that there are no lifeguards on the beaches anyomore...it's autumn, even it doesn't look like it at all!
I can't be happy even because I hate hot weather: I get depressed, lethargic and with no will power to react (have I mencioned I want to live in Scandinavia?) but most important,  I'm not happy because of the evidences of the Global Warming: if in Autumn 2011 it's like this how it will be by 2050 when your childs or grandchillds are born and maybe you still living up here?40ºC?50º?
Well if things keep going on this way, it's predicted not to exist ice during summer in the Arctic in 2050!
Have you ever stop to think about that catasthropic consequences?
If there is no ice in Arctic during summer it's just not the fact the polar bears would face extinction (in fact some of them now are drowning in the arctic seas because they have to swim long distants and the ice is getting thicker...as if this wasn't enought they have to deal with the lack of food...and some bears already started hunting themselves! In the magazine National Geogrphic of this month there comes an horrifying image of a bear eating a young bear! cannibalism isn't natural amongst any species on Earth!). The problem is too large cities by the cities will be flooded (London, New York, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro), entire countries can be flooded too or disappear forever (as Bangladesh, Denmark, Holland), and with no ice in Arctic there should be no ice too in the Himalaias glaciar...source of drinking water for a 1billion people!
But there are more problems too: with no ice, Earth reduces its power to reflect sun radiation out space and even more heat will be retained...even more heat will be generated, the lost of ice implies too the disturbance of salinity and temperatures in the oceans...what can interrupt the termohalin ocean circulation that takes a thousand years to do complete circulation worldwide...without that ocean current of transference of nutrients and that regulates the climate...we can face another Ice Age.
As the result we probably would exterminate all life on Earth including us, disturbing its delicated balance and magical wonders of life in order to increase our economical progress.
Is that okay for you?
If it is so, please don't have kids to witness the agony you don't care that your planet could face.
If it isn't okay for you do something...go green!

Catastrophic meltdown in Greenland
My inconvenient truth

4 October: International day of the Animals

Today is the international day of the Animals, those magical and wonderful creatures that make the world a more colorful and happy place filling life on Earth. So we should respect them because they feel too and their a masterpiece of life.
What happens is that unfortunatelly lots of people don't do so, the only way we have to stop them being cruel to animals is fighting them.
So here I remind you 4 petitions you can sign to help worldwide animals:


1)Sign a petition to Nike and Adidas stop using kangaroo leather!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/adidas-stop-using-kangaroo-leather/

2)Sign a petition to end the slaughter of dolphins and whales in Faroe Islands (denmark)
http://www.unleashed.org.au/take_action/petitions/stop-the-faroe-islands-whale-slaughter/


3)Sign a petition to stop the extermination of the Amazon Pink River Dolphin
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/24/fight-against-the-extermination-of-the-amazon-pink-river-dolphin/


4) Sign a petition to stop the slaughter of selas in Namibia
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-namibia39s-barbaric-seal-cull/


5) Sign a petition against the fur industry
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1741


6)Sign a petition to make Ukkraine stop burning and shoting animals
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/tell-ukraine-to-stop-burning-animals-alive/



"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated". Mahatma Ghandi


So, how great are you?

Bloody Canada

In early 2011, just in the (evoluted) Canada 260 000  baby seals were killed for the fur industry (the biggest importer of furs is U.S.A). Even saying that Canada government wouldn't allow hunting baby seals, they still doing! And if tehy're not babies, how can they think (they think?) there are no problem killing the adult ones? the babies would be orphans and in danger of dying anyway!
In fact, the biggest commercial hunting is in the (under)developed Canada.
Just in the year 2006 the seal hunting profited 56 million of canadian dollares (about 35 million euros).
The seal meat is used for fur, food, fuel, nutritional purposes (seal oil capsules are an "excellent" source of omega 3) and Canada exports seal constituints for other countries, even European Union, specially to the (under)developed Norway (who, together with Japan, still hunting whales) and for Asia.
Recent and promising investigations in Europe discovered that the heart valves of Greenland seals are much more superiors to those that are now being used in transplants of heart valves of the superior kind, only in the Universe with the ability to feel: (in)human (un)kind!
It is thought that the deman for the heart valves of  seals will be of 300 thousand a year at the price of 3400 euros each one!
Recently the canadian government released a statement in which defends the seal hunting as an economically viable and ecologically bearable activity (just because they decreased the hunting quotas).
Even having a an ecologically bearable hunting so seals are not put in risk of extinction, I just want to ask you this, Canada:

Does this suffering seem bearable to you?

You're hedious!

Bloody Minded Celebreties

Beyoncé is a heartless bitch who is vain about her cruelty

Who buys furs are rich and famous as famous celebrities like Madonna, Lindsay Lohan, Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West, Demi Moore(!), Ashton Kutcher(!), Mary J Blige, Kate Moss, the Olsen twins, Rihanna and the couple Jay Z and Beyoncé.

But on the other hand we've got too (few) celebreties who are anti-fur as the awesome Pink, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit. Well at least that's what I read somewhere but then I reminded the Salt movie with Angelina and her russian hat..it seems real...

WTF???

In the photo of Madonna PETA published with the survey results, Madonna is wearing what appears to be a vintage garment made of black colobus monkey fur.

Yeah you read it right, silly HEARTLESS BITCH MADONNA USES MONKEY FUR!
According to the Vintage Fashion Guild, "Monkey fur was very popular from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1940's during which time the Colobus Monkey population dropped to alarmingly low numbers."

Ashton Kutcher: a tacky person using furs

Cruella Lopez ridiculous walking in sunny LA with a fur coat

Olsen twins are cruel

According to the International Fur Trade Federation, 85 percent of the fur industry's skins come from animals in fur factory farms, rather than animals hunted or trapped in the wild.
PETA figures show that 73 percent of the world's fur farms are in Europe (!!!!!!!!!), 12 percent are in North America, and the rest are in countries such as Argentina, Russia and particularly in China.
In 2006, the latest year for which estimates are available, China produced four million fox pelts and approximately 10 million mink pelts, a 25 percent increase over the previous year.

tacky filthy rich the chav of Kanye West and his slut love to show how rich they are using expensive furs

The fantastic singer, Pink said that she should wear Kanye's skin and that Kanye West should donate himself so people could wear his fur: "there are so many people who I think are a waste of skin and he's [Kanye] up there. I should wear him!" and she even adds:"Go on, donate yourself Kanye. People can wear your fur!".

Pink is anti-fur! You go girl!

On these farms, foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals pace and shiver in outdoor wire cages, exposed to driving rain, freezing nights, and, at other times, scorching sun.

Disease and injuries are widespread, and animals suffering from anxiety-induced psychosis chew on their own limbs and throw themselves repeatedly against the cage bars.

IN THEIR LIVES AND THEIR UNSPEAKABLE DEATH, THESE ANIMALS HAVE BEEN DENIED EVEN THE SIMPLEST ACTS OF KINDNESS!

Rihanna using a real tacky fur hat

I didn't bought this My prerogative greatest hits CD because in the cover Britney appears with real fur coat, also the CD "In the Zone" which my uncle offered me I tore the back cover because she appeared in there with a fur coat
But it's not just in CD covers Brit appears with furs, she wears furs in satge and also in video clips as "Do Something" and even cover magazines as the Rolling Stone.

Brit in Rolling Stone music magazine cover chosed to wear  a fur coat! How  disappointing

Jay Z is dumb!

Even the beloved new princess of England Kate Middleton wears fur (and she seemed like a good person to me)!!!!

Well almost all celebrities use real fur and it's a big issue because people unfortunatelly see them as a fashion role model to follow, which might increase the fur businness.

But there is a celebritie in particular that I like, but I like even more if she stop using fur.

In fact I have a ticket for her show in Lisbon in November, and when I bought the ticket I just thought about how cool it would be to see my idol of childhood...but I really didn't thought about the fact I could be financing her fur cruel wardrobe!

Well she was asked to pose for PETA against furs but she didn't although she said she would never again use fur, but go search images and you'll find pictures of her using fur :(

She's Britney Spears!

And all this for what?  For you spread swagger of your cruelty! To you make sure everyone knows you all are filthy rich?
Yeah, you're rich, famous, tacky persons,cruel, ass-holes, idiots, cruel, inhumane, disgusting and murderes!

All those heartless idiots should exactly feel what is like to be skinned alive, be electrocuted or live all your life in tiny cages!
 YOU DON'T DESERVE ANY RESPECT!

Ah I was almost forgot: here's the rest of your coat, take it disgusting (in)human beings!


YOU ARE LITERALLY A WASTE OF LIFE! 
You're just making this world even worse, the world would be a better place without people like you!

Check this list of 45 celebrities that wear fur: list-of-45-celebrities-wearing-the-fur

Related posts:

Beyoncé was here!

my letter to Rihanna

Britney stop using fur just for fun

Britney is concerned about rainforests but hasn't quit on fur, yet!

Kardashians stop being cruel!

fur-is-cruelty-not-fashion

Penélope Cruz joins PETA free fur cause

FUR IS CRUELTY, NOT FASHION!

Comunication from Peta:

Millions of rabbits and other animals are killed for their fur every single year. Most of the fur on trashy boots or the collars of tacky jackets comes from fur farms, where rabbits are kept in tiny, filthy cages for years. They spend their entire miserable lives standing on cage floors made of thin wires, never having a chance to jump, dig, or play. Fur farmers kill the animals in horrible ways—some are killed by having their necks broken or their skulls beaten in, and others are killed by anal or vaginal electrocution. Yep, you read that right.

Animals like their fur. They don't want to die so that someone else can wear it. Can you blame them?

We have already reached our first goal of 100,000 Strong Against Fur, but we still want to get as many people as possible to tell the fur industry that people are over fur and that they want animals to stop being killed for their fur. The more, the merrier!

So sign our fur-free pledge and become one of the more than 100,000 Strong Against Fur!

https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1741

How can this be fashion? How could (specially women) be so futile and cruel? How can this be legal for selling and using? ACT NOW STOP IT!

http://furwarehouseny.com/#

I found this link of a fur warehouse in New Yorl absolutely repulsive, with photos of models saying: "see our new collection" and selling chinchilla and mink jackets, fox coats, mink coats, lynx coats (lynxes are an endangered species they not even exist in portugal anymore!!!), sable coats!!!

Activists of New York, it's forbidden to sing and play in the John Lennon's memorial in NY so how come this bloody minded warehouse be open?

                                                  Before: a friendly and inocent finn raccon

After: a heartless silly bitch vain of her cruelty

We need you to help stop Burberry! We live in a world where compassion and fashion should be one and the same, but companies like Burberry are showing little compassion to the animals who die for their clothes. With fur alternatives readily available, it's kinda messed up that Burberry is still intent on using the fur of animals for their coats. All we can think is that they are trying to scare off their chav buyers by producing clothes so tasteless and disgusting that even they wouldn't buy them.

How messed up is it that Burberry still uses dead animals for decoration in their clothes? Arctic foxes, red foxes, minks and Finn raccoons are among the victims of their bloody-minded fashion choices. The life that these animals lead is shrouded in misery right from birth. Being kept in steel cages with little to no room to move, they are treated as nothing more than objects which will eventually be drowned, anally electrocuted or beaten to death and skinned for their coats.

Greenpeace still waiting for toy companies stop playing with extinction

Greepeace organization ~got wondering who is using all the rainforest that is being destroyed in Indonesia and discovered that lots of it ends up as packaging of all kinds of well knowing brands (Disney, Mattel, Hasbro and Lego).

Their first clue was what some companies print on their boxes so they sent the toy packaging to the USA, where a global expert on paper analysed what they were made of and the scientist discovered something bad: there was MTH on those packaging.
 MTH=MixedTropical Hardwood is regularly used to make packaging and it comes from the rain forests of Indonesia.
And onlty two big companies must be buying their papers from one of two papers companies with huge mills in Sumatra where they pupl millions of trees from Indonesia's rainforest every years.
So Greenpeace went to the rainforest for investigate and found that the companies cutting down the rainforests are breaking some of Indonesia's laws wiping out tigers in the wild and making climate change worse...and they are even linked to corruption.
Risking all this:

For this:

As the result:

Inform in: http://moon.greenpeace.org/map-staging/eng/index.php?page=toy
Sign petition here:http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/asia-pacific/barbie/

Rain Forests

"Art is nature concentrated" Honore de Balzac


"The rain forest is a global treasure that stabilizes the climate and its home to most land life on the planet and to millions of people. It's taken thousands of years to grow and once it's destroyed it's gone forever. Unless laws against these sorts of forest crime are rigorously and urgently enforced to protect the rainforest and its people we'll have a biological catastrophe on our hands" Paulo Adario


"The rainforest is an important element on Earth  its purify the oxygenwe breathe, people get medicine from its plants and it gives different animals a place to live. We should do anything we can to save it" Janine Licare

32 facts about rainforests:

1- Amazon rain forest represents a little over half of the rain forest left in the world.


2-Factors that lead to the destruction of the rain forest include cattle ranching, mining and agricultural practices (WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO VEG!!!)


3- The Amazon river  basin covers approximately 40% of the south american continent.


4- Just in the twentieth century at least 90% different native tribes living in the Amazon disappeared.


5-At least 85% of Africa's tropical rain forest has been so destroyed.


6-Some experts believe that if destruction of the rain forest continues we might have a species extintion rate akin to the dinossaurs.


7-Many products of rain forest includes cofee, chewing gum, chocolate and vanilla.


8- Of the 1.2 billion people around the world living in extreme poverty 90% depend on forests to their livelihood.


9-Rain forests now cover 2% of the planet's surface and 6% of its land surface but in 1950 rain forests covered an estimated 15% of the world's land surface.


10-Every minute about 2000 trees are cut down in the rain forest. 


11- Between 1960 and 1980 Asia lost a third of its tropical rain forest.


12- Approximately six million indigenous people were living in the Amazon before the years 1500.


13- Approximately 60% of the world's forests are found in developing countries.


14- The largest cause of rain forest destruction is commercial loggin.


15-Because of tropical deforestation we lose about 100 species every day (!!!) as well many we didn't know even existed.


16- Of all water 16% flows through the Amazon delta.


17- More than 56 square miles of natural forest are destroyed every years.


18- A great diversity of life exists in the Amazon than anywhere else on Earth.


19-The world's rain forest help regulate temperatures and weather patterns.


20- Of the wood cut in tropical forests an estimated 70% is used in homes for fuel.


21- At one time there were about 6 million square miles of tropical forest worldwide. Due to deforestation there are now approximately 2,6 million square miles.


22- An estimated 90% of rain forest in west Africa has been destroyed.


23- Every second an area of the rain forest the size of football field is destroyed.


24- There are more species of fish in the Amazon river than in the entirety of the Atlantic Ocean.


25- Approximately one quarter of western medecines come from ingredients found in rainforests (as cortisona).


26-Every year about 250 000 parrots are imported to U.S.A to be sold as pet.


27- In the Amazon scientists have discovered 200 species of ant on just one tree.


28-A simple pond in Brazil can sustain more species of fish than all rivers in Europe.


29-Scientists estimate that the canopy of the Amazon rain forest, which is less studied that the ocean floor, may contain half of the world's species.


30-More than 20% of the oxygen used in the world is produced in the Amazon rain forest.


31-If the Amazon rain forest were a country it would be the 9th largest in the world.


32-If forest destruction continues at its current rate it is predicted that rainforests will become extinct in 2060.


Concluding if we destroy all rain forests in order improve our economy and our unbearable style of life there will no livable life for all those animals and for us, humans: no air will be produced so we won't be capable breathe...leading the world to  asphyxia. If you have about my age, early 20, I think you shouldn't have kids without thinking in what kind of world you'll let them: if you're 20 now and have a kid about the age of 30, in 2060 (where is estimated the extintion of rainforests if this all continues on) if you're alive you''ll be 70 and your son 50, you probably would have grandchildren by the time with 20 years or even great-grandchildren. The previous generation after us (our parents) are gone and we inherited this agonizing world from them. This all means that the present and future of the world relies on us! It's such a painful heritage but we have to do all we can to make future possible because now it's not even a certainty it's a hypothesis!!!
This is one of the of the reaons why I think world's population should be controlled, this years will ascend at 7 000 000 000 human beings on earth and the perspectives is of a continued growth...until 9 billions by 2050...and everyone wants a car, drinking water, eat every day, etc, etc. I think if we want to give more to more human more life conditions we should controll human population by just volunteering to not have more than 1 child or none at all. These perspectives is for a world that continues with this high exploration of natural resources but what happens is that with the increase of human population and developing economies (as China, Brazil, India) this will be worse...much worse!
I really don't think that if I have children I'll offer them a peaceful and good for living world...the same way I and my generation inherited this dying world.


That's why too, I think rain forests should World Heritage, but not in a way we all could destroy it to get more economical benefits, in a way we could protect them from this atrocious capitalism, together. 
The same way I get so sad when I see that companies like Mattel are paying indonesian poor men to destroy their rain forests in order to Mattel make cheap paper to wrap Barbies, and then a kid gets so happy when she receives a Barbie...and the paper is straight sent to the garbage! This process envolved painful damages to environment and wonderful creatures living there as tigers and orangutans. If you want Mattel to stop this atrocity sign this Greenpeace petition: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/asia-pacific/barbie/

Recently the brazilian congress agreed  to pass a law to allow amnesty fo forest crimes and reduce the size of protected areas (even against the will of the majority of brazilian people (about 79%) and the European Parliament).
Conservative estimates of the new law project 47 million hectares of deforestation- at least the size of California and Sweden!!!
Allowing congress to weaken Brazil's forest protection and legalize miles of deforestation could be a step backwards for Brazil fight against poverty, decads of deforestation in the Amazon has proven to be an ineffective way to lift people out of poverty in rural areas. And the world cannot adress global warming without Amazon!
Sign this petition to ask Brazil causing deforestation in Amazon: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/brazil-without-poverty-is-a-brazil-with-fores/blog/37134/

a message from brazilian activists to brazilian president Dilma Roussef: "Dilma, a Brasil without poverty is a Brazil with forest" 

And there's another recent threat: the brazialian congress aproved (against the will of  the bazilian people) the construction of a barrage that has been delayed for more than a decade: the dam of Belo Monte in the Rivor Xingu, right in the deep heart of Amazon forest! 
The previous three presidents of IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of Nature and Natural Resources) resigned themselves because they didn't approved the construction of the barrage, they knew it is an ecologiacal crime! More shocking is the fact that the electricity produced in that barrage is to provide mining industry (of iron, copper, gold and bauxite) what would increase even more the deforestaion.
The construction of the barrage will be an environmental, social, biological, economical cataclysm! Millions of people from a near city would be kicked out from their homes and the river is the livehood of more than 25000 indigenous from 24 ethnicity , the fishes wouldn't be able to go upriver and reproduce, the barrage also would flood a surrounding area bigger that the city of Rio de Janeiro, to divert such a huge river it would be necessary to dig two artificial channels bigger than the panama channel...two artificial channels constructed deep inside the forest!
It's repuslive to know that most part of the money to construct the barrage is from teh brazilian state that is funding the work with public money as pension funds!
The rivers are the blood of the Amazon, let's save them!
http://www.avaaz.org/po/pare_belo_monte/97.php


Well let's just say goodbye with a positive note, people that signed a petition for Greenpeace asking Nestlé to stop deforestation in Indonesian rainforests to extract palm oil to make the chocolates made it! 
So believe it's possible again, sign the petitions and try all you can do to be sure whatever you consume was not from an abusive exploration of rainforests, be in alert to Greenpeace actions and other nature organizations, don't buy mahogany wood, don't have exotic animals as your pets, try to use recycled paper (I don't know why I almost don't see it selling and why it is so much more expensive!), demand true actions from your government, don't buy anything that is from rain forests (except medecines of course), don't eat meat...take action and believe.
Well in the end, all you can do is your part, so that's what you must do! If we all defend the nature we can save rain forests.


TAKE ACTION!