| The preservation or destruction of one critically | | | | economically sustainable future. The most |
| important eco system on earth will ultimately | | | | successful and viable action being taken to |
| determine the survival of humans and all life that | | | | preserve the Amazon is to show everyone |
| needs to breathe air and drink water. This eco | | | | involved that the Rainforest is more valuable and |
| system will also determine a lot about the | | | | profitable alive than dead. The long term health |
| consequences of climate change. Preserving this | | | | and prosperity of the Rainforest and for human |
| eco system is all about preserving the earths | | | | sustainability on earth is about preserving and |
| environment. The eco system is the Amazon | | | | sustainably utilizing the wealth of the Amazon. |
| Rainforest. This is the most important eco | | | | Individual people can help preserve the |
| system on earth in many ways. The Amazon | | | | environment by helping to support the people that |
| acts as an air filter for the worlds air, produces a | | | | live in the Rainforest. Not by just giving them |
| large percentage of the worlds fresh water and | | | | money but by engaging with them in economic |
| acts as a pharmacy to the world, providing a vast | | | | partnership. Creating partnerships to help them |
| store of benefits for human health. | | | | market the sustainably harvested fair trade |
| If anyone is wondering what they can do to | | | | products coming out of the Amazon. Showing the |
| preserve the earth's environment, helping to | | | | people and the governments that the sustainably |
| preserve the Rainforest would be right up there | | | | utilized wealth of the Amazont can benefit the |
| with the most important actions one can take. If | | | | world and at the same time insure the future |
| you think about what will make the most | | | | sustainability of the Rainforest, its people and the |
| difference for global environmental preservation, | | | | region.. |
| preserving the Amazon Rainforest is critical. If we | | | | Individuals here in the U.S. and in other wealthy |
| fail to act and the Amazon's eco system is | | | | countries can help preserve the environment by |
| destroyed, it is estimated that the sustainability of | | | | going into business partnerships to market the |
| human life will be in doubt as well as most other | | | | sustainably produced fair trade goods from the |
| kinds of life. | | | | Amazon to the populations of wealthy countries. |
| The effort to preserve the Amazon Rainforest is | | | | This kind of action facilitates and promotes the |
| world wide. There are many organizations taking a | | | | fact that the Amazon Rainforest has far more |
| wide range of actions to stop the destruction of | | | | economic value as a thriving rich and alive eco |
| this critically important eco system. From political | | | | system. |
| action, legal actions and the influencing of the | | | | This kind of action for global environmental |
| governments of the countries that control the | | | | preservation is available to every individual who |
| Amazon. These kinds of actions are an important | | | | wants to participate. |
| part of the global preservation effort. The forces | | | | The really great result is that you get to be part |
| that are contributing to the destruction of the | | | | of preserving the Amazon Rainforest which is |
| Amazon eco system are all about economic | | | | critical to preserving the earths environment, you |
| interest, namely profit. Resource removal, | | | | help to facilitate economic sustainability for |
| deforesting for unsustainable farming, beef | | | | indigenous tribes and other citizens of the |
| production and other unsustainable and damaging | | | | Amazon regions and you yourself can benefit |
| actions, are all for profit. Ironically, one of the | | | | economically as well. It is fast becoming |
| most promising and effective preservation actions | | | | understood that the solutions for environmental |
| an individual can take and the actions being taken | | | | preservation are coming from individual grassroots |
| by the interests that are doing the destruction | | | | action through sustainable and equitable economic |
| are both about economics. | | | | partnerships. Its when the peoples of the world |
| Money talks! The governments, the tribal | | | | act together for the common good of the planet |
| indigenous peoples and everybody else that lives | | | | and the sustainability of life, that true |
| in and ultimately controls the future of the | | | | environmental preservation occurs. |
| Amazon Rainforest need and want an | | | | |