under the same sky 同じ空の下コミュのアマゾンの熱帯雨林

まず、はじめに。
最近コミュに新しく入りました、ズン子。と申します。
皆様、どうぞよろしく！！

先日、カナダにいる友達からこんなものが送られてきました。
これをどんどん知り合いに転送しろ、というもの。
私は３１８人目だったけど、人のリストまで載せるとすごいことになると思ったので、そこはカットしました。
ちなみに今までのリストの中には日本人はいませんでした。

アマゾンの危機、おそらく私たちの世代にはまだそう大きくは影響しないのだろうけど、貴重な酸素供給源であったり、薬物依存症の人を助ける植物があったり、我々を常に助けてくれるアマゾンの熱帯雨林がいずれは砂漠になってしまうのかと思うとぞっとします。どうしてブラジルの人びとはそんなアマゾンの５０％も削減しろなんて言うんでしょう？アマゾンの木を伐採してそれらを売って金儲けしてもそんなの一時だけの至福であとで困るのは自分たちなのに。。。
目先の幸せよりも大切なものってなかなか見えないものなのかな〜？
ところで、こういう事実って色んな説が出回ってたりするけれど、一体日本でどのくらいの人が認識していることなんでしょうね？

Hi All,
The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that
will reduce the
Amazon forest to 50% of its size.
It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but PLEASE put
your names on the list and forward this on as instructed below.
First, some facts: The Amazon rainforest is responsible for the
generation
of 20% of the oxygen that we on this earth breathe, 30% of the world's
freshwater is contained within the Amazon basin. 60% of the
cancer-fighting
drugs used today are derived from plants that can only be found within
the
Amazon rainforest. The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of
Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for
livestock.
All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood
chips, by large
multinational companies. The truth is that the soil in the Amazon
forest is
useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the
region
is prone to
constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 square kilometres
deforested
with the same purpose are abandoned and in the process of becoming
deserts,
meaning that this proposal is in the short-term interests of a few, and
in
the long term interests of none.
Please copy (cut & paste) the entire text into a new
e-mail, put your
complete name on the list below, and send to everyone
you know.
Blindcopies (BCC) would be nice...
DON'T JUST.FORWARD IT, AS IT WILL THEN END UP WITH
ROWS AND ROWS of '>' which discourages people from sending it on.).
If you are the 400th person to sign please send a copy
to:
fsaviolo@openlink.com.br
Thank you for your help!