Life drains away from towns built on the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest

In Phillips' article, "Brazil: The clampdown on illegal loggers has brought a dramatic decline for local residents", he explains how the authorities of Brazil have tried to abolish and restrict the problem of illegal logging in the city of Castelo dos Sonhos, a famous city of dreams for most of the people in Brazil. But next, he underlines that because of this decision of the Brazilian government, the economy and the life conditions have become more likely difficult for some citizens, who suffer from the lack of job, loss of market or trade. In the end, he also states that because of the death of Dorothy, a nun who has been also fighting for the protection of the Amazon Rainforest, the brazilian government has tried to get the Amazon Rainforest conservation as it one of concerns by dealing with illegal logging.

There is a saying that says, "the law is rough but it is still the law". However, the preservation of nature and environment must be in the mind of all the people by not looking their own interest. But it is also important good for authorities to think how to reduce poverty among people, to create a job for them, and to protect social conditions for them.

First, reducing poverty among people is one of the concerns for today's actuality in the world, whatever situations that happen. As the poverty is getting some family, the leaders need to seek some permanent solutions to resolve that rather than let the population find their own way to survive. As a result, they can do anything for themselves to get the best of their life, without caring about the outcome that can be fall either nature or the environment. For instance, people who live in the north part of Brazil which is traveled by Amazon, the name given to the big Rainforest there, are often doing illegal logging through cooperation with some individious or illegal industries. Those people use peasants to help them cutting trees in the forest and after that they give them some money in return. Moreover, these people have no care or idea about which trees can be cut, or which cannot be, comparing the weather and ecology.

Second, if in such area there is some full or part time job for helping people working legally, they may not target other things, rather than work hard for their own job which helps them survive and satisfy their daily needs. Others from their job and their money earned from that can even contribute to the improvement of the environment by initiating some work for the evacuation of garbabe or dirt on the avenues, streets and their own places. Furthermore, they may think they would rather cut trees in the forest than create some touristy places in the safe area inside the forest so that people can visit the environment of the forest, to camp during weekend, and to take some pictures showing the beauty of the nature. These are not impossible if people internalized the importance of nature and environment.

Finally, to protect the social conditions is to make the society in alignment with all the positive circumstances that can surge. If there is a decision to forbid such a situaton, it is sometimes good to analyze how to get people involved in the issue. To illustrate, as the Brazilian authorities are restricting the illegal logging for a legal plan of practice, it would be easier if they should also use people who used to do that, such peasants, industrial workers, and some other individious people in order to make the issue more efficient.

In conclusion, the protection of nature and the environment is not too bad, and everybody should walk with this step. In fact if some authorities are dealing with this problem for people who destroy them for their own benefit and trade, they should be expected to get those people rid of that by ensuring their life conditions, by giving them some responsability, and by helping them to work legally for the happiness of all.


Reference

Phillips, T. (2006, November 21). Life drains away from towns built on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest: Brazil: The clampdown on illegal loggers has brought a dramatic decline for local residents. The Guardian International, p.23. Retrieved October 23, 2007 from LexisNexis.