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<p>When the first Iberian adventurers discovered the Amazon and the native Indian and tribal peoples living along its banks, they believed they had stumbled upon what one traveler later called "the unfinished last page of Genesis." Legends sprang up of El Dorado, the gilded man, and a golden city hidden along the river which would bring limitless wealth to its discoverer. Today the tropical rain forests of the Amazon have no less a hold on the world's imagination—environmentalists plead for the last great wilderness, a fragile Eden whose fate is intimately linked with the fate of the earth, while landless peasants and the garimpeiros, or wildcat miners, stream to what they perceive as the last frontier, rich in untapped resources and possibilities. The tension between the needs of the delicate and irreplaceable ecosystem and the no-less-compelling needs of the population seemed inevitable, and perhaps insolvable.<br> In <b>The Green Cathedral</b>, Juan de Onis offers a set of proposals for the economic <b>and</b> ecological survival of this vital region, arguing that it is not possible to save the trees of Amazonia without also saving its people. A former foreign correspondent for

Author

De Onis, Juan, 1927-

Publisher

Oxford University Press, 1992.

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195074604

Subjects

Economics, Anthropology, Nature