A few months ago, a couple of US board members from my organization were visiting Ecuador with a video camera. While in a remote village in southern Ecuador, an old woman suddenly approached them in distress. At one point she was frozen in tears and couldn't speak. This is one of the poorest areas of Ecuador with an average income of under $50 per month. There are no social services available of any kind. No one was able to help her, not even the local priest.
So they decided her story must be told.
Yours truly, along with the help of another volunteer, translated pages and pages of country Spanish to potentially use in the video.
The old womans name is Lastenia Correa Aponte. This video is HER STORY.
- This video shows a tropical forest in Ecuador with the highest biodiversity in the world with over 800 bird species. Unfortunately it could be gone in a few years.
- The video wasn't intended to be focused so much on corn ethanol, biofuel, renewable energy, E85, or congress' energy policy but thats where the story led us. It seems that when we burn food to run our cars it affects the whole world! (for more info see Energy Policy Act 2005, HR6 Energy Independence Security Act 2007)
Here's a link to the video: http://ethanol-lie.com/
2 comments:
Why is it the US's fault that Ecuadorians are cutting down their own rain forests? Why not blame the ones doing the cutting? This video tugs at the heart strings of an uniformed audience but does not explain the link or provide facts to their claim that it is US policy "forcing" Ecuadorians to cut down their own rain forests.
The US is the breadbasket of the world and we're using 1/3rd of our corn crop this year for biofuel - this is driving up the price of food and poor people are hungry. That's why the rainforests are disappearing.
GET INFORMED and read:
"The Clean Energy Scam"
at www.time.com
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