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What future for Amazonia? (Environment and Development: A Global Commitment)
Many people in the industrialized countries would like Amazonia to be preserved exactly as it is, and transform it into a vast nature reserve.
Some of these advocates of the non-development of Amazonia attach the highest priority to safeguarding planet Earth and at the same time contrive to regard human beings as parasites. Others point out that the Amazonian forest plays a major role in counteracting the greenhouse effect, and wish to see it act as a gigantic filter so that 500 million cars can continue to consume fossil fuels.
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