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This 3 page paper discusses the problems of deforestation in Brazil and pollution of the Colombian Amazon and what we can do about it. It also discusses the way in which the U.S. and Canada worked to clean up Lake Erie. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in South America: the deforestation of the Brazilian rainforests, and the water pollution of the Amazon River in Colombia. Discussion The root cause of the problems in this region, according
to one source, is poverty: "Not only the poverty within Latin American countries, but also the ever-increasing gap between the developed and developing nations-an especially dramatic gap in the Americas
because of the geographical proximity of the worlds wealthiest nation, the United States, to Latin America" (Leech, 2000). When people are desperately poor environmental concerns are last on their list
(Leech, 2000). The farmers in the Amazon burn down the rainforests in order to plant crops; in Colombia, drug dealers build their labs on the banks of the Amazon and
pollute it with chemicals (Leech, 2000). Can the governments of Brazil and Colombia, local governments or businesses and individuals turn this around? The answer is probably not going to be
found in governmental action of any kind, first because any government that tried to mandate any sort of income redistribution to lift people out of poverty would be thrown out
of office immediately; and second, weve already seen that governments have little or no effect on drug traffickers. The "war on drugs" has been pronounced by experts as a dismal
failure and "three strikes laws" that jail users are drawing substantial criticism. It seems that the best strategy might be local involvement, specifically banks that make micro-loans so that farmers
wouldnt have to destroy vital rainforests to make a living. This concept is simple: visionary banks make small loans-often without collateral-to individuals to help them set up a business, buy
a house, or to provide working capital (Kamp, 2005). For example, a vegetable seller in La Paz, a woman named Anna Cussi de Zeneto who is 51, divorced and has
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