Amazon Land Use Conflict Flashcards
1
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Natives (how they defend)
A
- they have been here the longest (12,000 years)
- ## other groups are ruining there land
2
Q
What rubber tappers want
A
- keep making money
- stop deforestation
- preserve land
3
Q
How rubber tappers defend there position
A
- give people jobs
- get rubber without harming the environment
4
Q
What loggers want
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- want to keep clearing trees
- want to use wood to make paper, pencils and furniture
- want to improve the economy of Brazil
5
Q
How do loggers defend there position
A
- they can replant trees
- making money for Brazil
- give people jobs
6
Q
What miners want
A
- get minerals
- make money
7
Q
How do the miners defend there position
A
- give phones, jewelry and other stuff
- improve the job market
- don’t do as much deforestation
8
Q
What cattle ranchers want
A
- raise cows
- make them into beef
- give jobs and money
9
Q
How cattle ranchers defend there position
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- meat makes you healthy
- just using land already cut by miners
- provide jobs
- helped pay 1.5 billion dollars of Brazil’s dept
10
Q
What the environmental group wants
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- slow down clearing of trees
- protect biodiversity of the land
11
Q
How the environmentalists defend there position
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- loggers and other groups destroy the land
- there is lots of biodiversity to explore
- the Amazon is the lungs of the earth
12
Q
What farmers want
A
Big farms - want money
Small farms - want to get out of poverty and feed there families
13
Q
How do they defend there position
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- good for the economy
- provide jobs
- the government gave them land and no body can take it away
14
Q
What do pharmaceuticals want
A
- want to preserve the Amazon
- make money and find cures
- work with natives to see what they know about medicine in the Amazon
15
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How do pharmaceuticals defend there position
A
- preserve the Amazon
- end deceases
- don’t destroy land
- have only studied 1 percent of the Amazon imagine what else they can find
