‘Easy to say when you have food and a roof over your head. The guy lighting fires in the Amazon doesn’t share your sentiment. Your benevolent spaceship Earth is trying to kill him. He needs a place for his goat to graze so he makes it. He has my support.’

Great post Windy. As usual you are ignorant and ill-informed with no ability to think logically whatsoever. You seem to have no understanding of life on this planet and the dependencies and interdependencies that exist. Your logic here is on par with your other posts and henceforth I will ignore any further ones from you based soley upon this last effort.

Its economy is the size of Britain’s. Its GDP per capita is about $10,000 (using purchasing power parity figures).

Given that the cost of a space program is likely to continue to fall (if done efficiently), and the Brazil of 2030 is going to have an economy of similar size to the American economy of the 1960s, cooperating with Brazil on space makes perfect sense.

“He needs a place for his goat to graze so he makes it. He has my support.”

It’s not goats that are deforesting the rain forests, it’s bulldozers. And they’re not doing it for goats, but for agri-corp farms.

As usual, you don’t have a clue what the issues are.

Easy to say when you have food and a roof over your head. The guy lighting fires in the Amazon doesn’t share your sentiment. Your benevolent spaceship Earth is trying to kill him. He needs a place for his goat to graze so he makes it. He has my support.

“Good Lord! Talk about playing small ball! 3 wars raging, nuclear meltdowns and catastrophic death in Japan and Obama is in Rio doing the samba with Brazil’s new socialist leadership.”

E.P. Grondine wrote:

“I don’t have a clue why Obama is in Brazil right now, but you can be sure that it is for important reasons.”

China grabs Latin America, well ahead of Obama’s outreach

“Madrid – President Obama’s current visit to Latin America is widely seen as a move to counteract the rising influence of China, which is in the midst of an unprecedented energy grab in the oil- and mineral-rich region.

The grab is not only unprecedented but also a significant game-changer in China’s rise as a world power, especially because the US plans to increasingly meet its own energy demand with Latin American oil, setting the stage for a future competition between both countries.”

Actually, the President is making deals for America.

Agreed.

Here’s a thought Windy, The Earth is a spaceship and has crew and passengers. She needs her crew and can’t survive without them but passengers are optional. Guess who the passengers are?

Most Americans do not subscribe to the weird agrarian vision espoused by the eco-left. Such people are now making government policy and they must be contested. You druids may mourn the loss of the trees. I celebrate impoverished Brazilians improving their lives.

Careful Windy, you’re crossing the line into self-parody with this one

“I don’t have a clue why Obama is in Brazil right now, but you can be sure that it is for important reasons.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil

“The Brazilian economy is the world’s eighth largest economy by nominal GDP[14] and the seventh largest by purchasing power parity.[15] Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing major economies.“