Belo Monte Dam
How we can still keep the Belo Monte Dam?
What is the Problem?
The dam will flood Amerindians' land, which they have owned for hundreds of years. Not to mention the dam has so far broken laws because their is a rule in the Brazilian Constitution that states that any company cant tamper with anything in native land unless they consult the Natives which the company that is building the dam has not yet done, which could mean the dam could be halted or shut down which would ultimately bad for Brazil, because it would prevent thousands of jobs, and it wouldn't help the economy at all because they have all ready started building the dam.
Why is the dam worth the cost?
The dam is worth the cost because their are 20,000 people working to make the dam. If Brazil does end up re routing it, which they have started to try to do, more people will have to do the re routing of the dam, which means more jobs. If their are more jobs, that will mean more money will be circulating around Brazil. If everyone has more money that will mean the economy will rise. And the economic growth would be worth the cost.
What are The Perspectives?
The Amerindians
These are the Amerindians who's land will get flooded, even though they rightfully own it, and have been in that are for hundreds of years. They are protesting because they claim that another group of natives who had a dam built by corporate Brazil, had their river where they fished from turned into a cesspool with all of the fish dead, but in reality the group of Amerindians that think they are going to get affected, are days upstream from the dam.
Why is Brazil Deciding to do This?
The reason corporate Brazil is deciding to do this, is because they know the potential of how much the economy could rise from 20,000 jobs. According to "The rights And Wrongs Of The Belo Monte Dam" it states that, Brazil has spent an extra 2 billion reais (their money) on the flooding issue. This shows that Brazil is alert to the problem, and think that they should fix it, and their will be even more money getting made, because the people who don't have jobs will have them now, because besides making the dam, they have to re route it, which needs more people, and the economy cant rise unless the bottom rises.
Is The Nature Surrounding The Dam Affected?
Now that the dam is closer to getting built, opposers of it see that it is less damaging to nature then originally thought as stated by "The Rights And Wrongs Of the Belo Monte Dam". This is good, because the Dam wont be terrible for the beautiful surrounding Amazon rain-forest.
What is The Solution?
One of my solutions is to re-route the dam so that the native's land doesn't get flooded. This will alongside let them keep their land, make even more jobs. Take a boat as the economy, and the sail as the top, and the keel as the bottom. A boat doesn't rise by the sail, it rise's by the keel, and so to get the economy to rise, we need the people who don't have jobs, or not very good ones to get more money, so if we re route it, that will help the economy rise, because the people on the bottom will be getting more money, and their is already 20,000 people working just to create the dam.