Precious Metals vs. Precious Life: Destruction of the Amazon

(Before It's News)

By Sergey Baranov | Guest Writer for Wake Up World

An overview of deforestation and pollution of the Amazon rainforest.

When Avatar, a masterpiece written and produced by James Cameron, came out, I was already living in Peru and for the first time I saw it in the bus during my honeymoon heading north to visit a dear friend of mine in the central Andes. But a long bus ride going on a mountain road made the viewing someone difficult.

I thought to watch it again when I got home. Watching the movie upon my return was more than simply enjoying the special effects. It was quite sad since a painful reality was reflected in the science fiction film. The fictional wildlife of Pandora reminded me of real life in the Amazon basin, a unique eco-system and the richest region on Earth in terms of biodiversity. It is a home for countless species of plants, many of which have incredible curative properties which knows no equal in the world.

In the movie, a Resources Development Administration searching for a rare and valuable mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, stumbles upon the richest deposit of it on which ground stands a giant tree which is seen as sacred by the native humanoid tribe Na’vi. This Hometree, or the Tree of Souls, was seen as source of healing and inspiration by the natives, had to be removed in order to get to the mineral deposit underneath it. But destroying the Hometree would mean more than just a moral devastation of the native tribe who worshiped the tree for its sacredness. It would also threaten the whole biosphere native to Pandora due to its neural connectedness with the web of planetary life. What happens next in the movie, we can see in our world, in which corporate greed is destroying life on its path to enrichment.

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