[pf] Marie Celeste e-mails

· One person forwarded the
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Subject: Amazonian Rain Forest Petition
>
> The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project
>that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size.
> 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 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,
> ...

· The second person asked:

 Is this for real? When this first came round about 2 months ago I duly put
my name to it and sent it to a lot of other people, only to have someone in
Green Views pop up a few days later and say that it is a scam - i.e. that
there was no such one-off threat to the rain forest. Can anyone tell us for
certain what the truth is?


· The third person said:

 I saw this petition when I first hooked up to the internet. That was about
2-3 years ago.


· Then the original poster said:

Humm.....sorry about that then. Reminds me of a vagrant fishing net that
goes on catching fish till it disintegrates. Could go for a while then.


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P.S. I checked "Marie Celeste" (with quotes) in Google, to see if I'd got
it right, and found a sort-of-interesting other-person's-use of the name:
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/juliet.e.mckenna/marieceleste.html

sent to Positive Futures by David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
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