think a little, please!
I just received an email which is the biggest stupidity of recent times: a chauvinistic jerk calls for a boycott, not to consume, Argentine products ... name is not known what, but either way is an outrage that threatens the country's interests.
Just think about this: The Uruguayan consumption represents less than 1 percent of Argentina's production. Instead, the Argentines buy about 30 percent of our export production. The conclusions are obvious: if you absolutely all Uruguayans stop buying Argentine products would do them no dent in the Argentine (although the boycott was a success not know what we gain horns !!!!), but if Argentines boycotted SERIOUSLY our production we would make a hole our economy would be ruined. Enter into this sort of nonsense is unfortunate jingoistic and chauvinistic. The organizers do not tell what would be the saint of such a boycott, but one imagines that is the issue of roadblocks and pulp mills, as mentioned resolutions on the use of the Uruguay River from La Hague and BID ... (meaning, incidentally, that the Uruguayans should prostrate authorities to such very famous) ...
thoughts on plants. If we make a list of benefits and harms, the list is much larger damages than benefits.
be created only 300 jobs (mostly for foreign technicians) while going to destroy thousands of jobs in agriculture, fisheries, tourism, gastronomy, hotels, beekeeping and other important areas of the economy.
The installation of these plants will not only pollute and deteriorate in a very serious way the ecosystem of the Uruguay River basin, but also will generate migration, poverty, misery and unemployment, as they have done all the pulp mills, with the same technology, have already settled in other South American countries. Let's look at two examples: the Celco cellulose in Valdivia, Chile, using exactly the same technology that Botnia, had to be closed by the government due to high pollution and poisoned many people and killed more than 30,000 swans black-necked (endangered species) in the Cruces River Sanctuary declared Ecological Site by the United Nations.
In Brazil, Aracruz Cellulose, the same economic group and with the same technology that Botnia and Ence, contaminated the river so that the fishermen had to emigrate and much of the population also has been due to lack of work caused by the advance of monoculture eucalyptus.
Recently the mayor of Pontevedra, where the array is installed Ence said publicly that the inhabitants of that city in Galicia are looking forward to the fulfillment of the legal term given to the company to withdraw because the estuary has been highly contaminated, which has damaged fishing, the main industry in the region, in addition to increased incidence of cancer and respiratory disease among residents of the area.
So far, the only defense of plants in Uruguay are paid technicians by the company, the technicians are paid by the World Bank and the government, all involved with direct interests in this nefarious scheme to succeed. In contrast, all independent experts, including faculty of Sciences, and those belonging to diverse organizations, ie, above suspicion of bias, they argue that pollution is really serious and harmful.
government, business and the World Bank lie when they say they will use the latest technology. Because they use ECF, which is a technology that is 15 years behind compared to the TCF. While the ECF effluents are dumped into the river contaminated with pollution TCF would be less because it is a closed loop system. But as it is more expensive not to use in Uruguay, by contrast, will use the most backward and the most polluting: the ECF.
Government, World Bank, the company and the media lie knowing that the World Bank and the company have put a lot of money to do so. Moreover, the government wants to save his friends from the bank boxes, notary and university professionals selling trees, while the country has melted down, because the only ones benefiting from this project are the owners of forested areas and the large transnational corporations afforestation. Install
dirty business, highly toxic contaminants in third world countries is a goal long planned and implemented by the rule and the central and Uruguayans are now suffering the consequences. It is sad that the new government to support such aggression to our legitimate interests.
But also the main argument for the plants, which is the alleged creation of jobs, falls apart spectacularly when you do the math: put the plants here means choosing the forestry model, the worst model of all existing productive . Why? For a thousand hectares of forested area, employing just four people. Instead, thousand hectares any type of agricultural production - ANYONE! - employs five times as many people. Some items are cheap to employ, even 150 people in the same area, but on average agricultural production is five times more employment generating than afforestation. Therefore, opt for afforestation and for the installation of pulp mills is to choose a future of despair, migration, unemployment and poverty, as it has happened in all those regions where these plants have already been installed.
While the new government will continue along this path there will be no problem with the opposition. The Sanguinetti, the Batlle, Los Lacalle and Heber own or are involved with large forested area. And so these leaders rubbed his hands and congratulate Arana and Vazquez on this issue, like the mass media, but we all know are people who never cared the country.
To top: and not enough to destroy the Fray Bentos coast but also to destroy Durazno y Rocha, the latter one of the departments would lose its greatest asset, ie their natural environments, beaches and wetlands that are most source of income from the tourism point of view that the country faces. But if these three plants are installed are not the only ones: there are seven more planned. Can you imagine what will become of Uruguay?: There is only room for a few technicians and operators dealing with burning logs, to bear the smell of rotten eggs and can survive tons of pollutants. The little country will become a green desert.
I ask myself the following: we broke the soul to defend our water, we had a referendum which is an example in the world and now the people who happily give away is going to pollute with impunity. Worse because the country does not even going to win a weight with the industrialization of the trees. Uruguay will continue to export logs, ie, raw materials without value added, because the territory you are installing Botnia and does not belong to Uruguay, is part of Finnish territory, the government gave it, is what emerges from the treaty approved by Parliament and the government decree that made that part of our country in a free zone.
Another pearl in this necklace: Botnia is exempt from paying taxes, if any merchant or manufacturer Uruguay, like anybody else, pay increasingly burdensome taxes. In the past 20 years, including direct and indirect subsidies gave the country one billion dollars in forestry, we pay taxes to all Uruguayans. The model forest is exotic and inefficient and would not prosper without subsidies. Among many atrocities, the previous government passed a law under which any agricultural complex forested area exceeding 60 percent or more is exempt from tax. Results: Most landowners planted eucalyptus in cold blood, even in land suitable for agriculture or grazing, disabling the land for other productive activities, destroying the Uruguay Natural. But worst of all is that now the new government, instead of trying to reverse the disaster, seeks to further injustice: in the latest draft budget included an article which exempts from all taxation to forest enterprises. Such nonsense we will pay all Uruguayans ... Sad, very sad. It is time we started to think instead of saying yes to everything that we try to "sell." WF
PS: I just learned that an Uruguayan legislator, I do not know who she is and which party, recently called in a session of Parliament, not to consume products from Argentina. Go! What an idiot you do online, go and go, but a legislator to do so in full Parliament is already severe. The only comment I can think of is this: for many years Uruguay has to export brains. It is seen that almost all have sent abroad, so that these things happen in our blessed country.
