@SealLion:
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one of the themes in this film is protection of rainforest resources.
not really, the director here is simply exploiting the subject to score some environmentalist points, while at the same time killing-off these characters and having fun showing it on-screen - also, imagine the enormous amount of resources spent on making worthless movies incl. the surrounding/supporting/related activities and industries, a huge waste rarely correlated to environmentalist concerns (they like to use and are encouraged to use only the more obvious examples)
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One of the important resources that rain forests have... also emits and absorbs vast quantities of CO2.
its a feature common to all kinds of forests, all kinds of plants (that use the process of photosynthesis), among others - emission of CO2 here is much lower than absorption, so the former may be excluded from the equation for the purpose of simplicity
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When corporations or even individuals deforest rain forests
individuals? only if we're talking about a (very) large number of individuals, doing it senselessly (no moderation)
deforestation? only if done excessively (usually large corporations and their partners, shielded by local governments, with little opposition from the voters) and with little or no properly balancing reforestation activity
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Multi-national corporations ... are phenomenally and incredibly destructive to rain forests to say the least.
indeed, seems that with all their technological advancements in terms of manufacturing, there is a glaring backwardness in terms of genuine environmental concern or ethical behavior, which they try to hide by supporting semi-deceptive activities like global charities or outright false ones like carbon offsets, whereas what they should be doing in the first place is 'cleaning up their own back yard' (that of their own company/factories) or 'cleaning up their own act' (transparency/honesty)
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Products from China, as you know are cheap quality. So cheap in fact that I recall from personal experience that a pair of sandals I bought at Walmart only lasted about 3 weeks.
...you can just imagine the pace of leather needed from cows grazing on cleared land from rain forests around the world.
and the same applies to any kind of mass-produced wares (and the respective resources used in production)
the interesting thing here is that they could easily make these products to be of (much) higher quality/durability/... without much financial effort if they wanted to, however, generally they support a consumerist policy aimed towards achieving ever shorter time between re-buying the items in question (shorter product life-cycle), just to drive-up the industry into crazy manufacturing sprees, while pushing the public into even crazier consuming/purchasing sprees - then these same companies/politicians talk of environmental concern/protection? laughable - the worst part: not only do they get away with such hypocrisy (no proper voter backlash), they even get almost a free hand to design/propose relevant legislation in their favor (lobbying) - can you guess the outcome/future? more of the same
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greed for more profit...Greed for even more profit.
not only that, the idea is to intentionally ruin the environment (create a perpetuating problem or aggravate/intensify an existing one) and then propose a number of deceptive solutions/measures to supposedly combat the problem, establish/support opposing camps, keep them busy/fighting each other while failing to notice the bigger picture and the same old puppeteers behind the scenes...wash, rinse, repeat (with occasional variations on the theme)
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Multi-national companies that do business are basically separate nations without boundaries.
yes, make no mistake, just because a company originates from, lets say, usa, it surely does not automatically mean it has to support usa interests, let alone usa citizen interests - what may be noticed though is how these large multi-national companies tend to have very similar global(ist) interests, as if they made agreements to cooperate on these issues
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Here's another good one: Media from Western nations are willing to overlook the destructive things governments and multi-national corporations do in Third World countries.
furthermore, the media doesn't even bother to look (parroting official PR statements suffices) and those that do investigate are either trained/bribed/encouraged to look in the wrong direction or simply marginal players (often tainted by other non-desirable elements like: conspiratorial tendencies, fanaticism, blind support for other issues, lack of quality sources,...)
in addition to this, similar practice (though to a somewhat lesser degree) is happening in every more developed country in the world, ie. its not limited to 'less-developed' countries only
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Banks are so fat with riches, it's disgusting.
such riches are symptomatic of foul play (thus easily identifiable), the real issue is the underlying mechanism of banking practices (how they create money or (over)extract it from their clients or gamble with it in various ways or blackmail entire countries or achieve global influence/control,...), not to mention how this was (and still is) allowed to work in such an exploitative manner (active political support/favoritism) - 'cleaning up their act' comes to mind...again
finally, these are only a few issues in a sea of similar ones, plaguing current societies (most of the issues working in a similar way), so you don't need to be an expert in all of these fields to know what is (most likely) happening beneath the (PR) surface - a good, familiar example is 'entertainment industry vs. filesharing' where one can notice striking similarities in the way these corporations behave (aggressive, deceptive, greedy,...), what their goals may be (globalism, revolving problems, profit,...) and how are they connected to the political/legislative level of decision-making (lobbying, protectionism, shared goals/ideas/members,...) - imagine the amount of cleaning needed to fix this ridiculous state of affairs in the world today - last but not least, 'cleaning up their act' is in order not only for corporations or politicians or science or religions or voters - the so-called modern human has lost his values (or more correctly: uses distorted ones), the society has degenerated towards totalitarianism in disguise, the established authorities are the main promoters of falsehoods, etc. - that is 'the truth that hurts' and the only proper way of solving it is to start from oneself and fix yourself first - if and only if others will be so wise as to do the same then a critical mass may turn the current tide, everything else is self-deception (easily proven by historical records)