An applied environmental ethics 'case study on the Brazilian rainforest'.

"The authenticity of nature arises out of the fact that its existence precedes its essence." - Eugene C. Hargrove The Moral Problem During the 1960s, Brazil was burdened with the heavy responsibility of a huge foreign debt (two decades later this would be front-page news in developed nations) and a rapidly increasing population of already 70 million people. The Amazon basin, which covers 50 percent of Brazil's territory, was home to only 3,5 percent of the population with …

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