GREED
There are those today who would destructively exploit the environment and bring suffering to others in order to gratify their craving for financial gain. A case in point can be found in a recent plan for a project to be developed in the heart of Brazil. The Amazon jungle, according to some experts, is producing through photosynthesis approximately 20 percent of all the world’s oxygen. A billionaire has purchased 500,000 acres of the Amazon in order to turn its trees into wood pulp. With a pulp plant manufactured in Japan and towed 15,000 miles to a tributary of the Amazon River, he expects to produce 750 metric tons of pulp every day. This would be enough pulp to produce sufficient toilet paper daily to go around the world sixteen times. We have to question whether the private enterprise of one individual can justify endangering the well- being of everyone on the planet. The significance of this project becomes particularly noteworthy when a study…
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