Environmentalist slain for protecting Amazon

In Brazil, a funeral will be held on Thursday for Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife who were killed in an ambush in a nature reserve. The leading environmental activist's murder has raised questions about the dangers of protecting the Amazon. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Brazil.

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[radakat]

A hero, a martyr for all of humanity. If the people involved have no remorse, then it is time for everyone to stand up for one another. This planet is not to be raped!

[HenryDavidT]

We are sure those who ordered the killing these two elder people who merely spoke on behalf of plants, animals, and ecosystems which can not speak on their own behalf... are now congratulating themselves. Homo sapiens are truly the most vile, most violent, and most destructive species ever to transgress against this beautiful earth, whether they are the ones who possess nuclear weapons that can instantly destroy the earth or those who of us who destroy it one tree, one animal at a time.

[chiyerano]

@Katyusha666 And that may be part of the problem.

[Katyusha666]

@chiyerano Not all of us, some of us. I am not "some of us" and so I don't care.

[chiyerano]

@Katyusha666 Actually, many of us are seeing and dealing with the consequences right now, whether we know it or not.

[Katyusha666]

@chiyerano Consequences that we won't live to see.

[chiyerano]

@Katyusha666 Yeah, we can do whatever we want but not without consequences that affect ourselves and others and our future generations.

[chiyerano]

@Katyusha666 You mean an opinion based largely on religion and superstition. We aren't really gods. A real god can give as well as take life. A real god doesn't die and isn't prone to error and disease. Man is a mortal. So are animals. Also, as far as I can tell, we are not so much harming the planet itself, we are actually harming ourselves and other lifeforms on the planet. Living by your way of thinking is partly why we are in the mess that we are in and I will leave it at that.

[Katyusha666]

@chiyerano Yes, and opinion based on historical fact. A god doesn't necessarily have to be a power of creation, look at Kali and Shiva in the Hindu pantheon. Being gods we can do whatever we want with this planet, we all die one day so who cares about what happens? You get a minimum of 60 years to do whatever you want, so have fun. Truly this movement of "saving" the planet is really pathetic, we can't even take of each other so let alone the planet.

[chiyerano]

@Katyusha666 We don't really BUILD nature, the most we do is help to maintain it or modify it but we don't create it. Life comes when it comes. I am just saying that if we are truly the 'supreme' beings and 'gods' you claim us to be, we should be able to give and bring natural things to life and we don't making us no better than the other lifeforms we tend to look down on. So you saying that we're 'gods' and 'supreme beings' has no factual basis either and is just your opinion.

[Katyusha666]

@chiyerano Oh? Ever heard of the kibbutz? How about the green barrage? We are capable destroying as well as building nature, however, we have no obligation to do either excepting to further the survival of our race. You talk as if we are on this planet for some divine purpose of protecting the planet, but that's your opinion and certainly has no factual basis.

[Oishi08]

Rest in Peace. Keep up the struggle against the corporate hegemons!