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standards, self-control or common sense.

It is clear North Americans and others want to exploit and control gas and oil reserves in Peru, and seemingly nothing to date, including the requirement for civility, ethics, gas line ruptures, explosions, or environmental disaster will prevent that from happening.

The current economic greed and "preference for excess" suggests that the majority of North Americans, occupied with other pressing, important issues, appear to know or care little about what their multinationals are doing in other countries.

It seems preferable not to ask the "hard questions" as long as the benefits continue to flow unabated back to the coffers of the United States.

Commercial operations conducted in fragile ecosystems such as easily destroyed rain forests, must be planned with far higher standards and controls than are similar operations located in less sensitive areas. The jungles of Peru's Amazon are incredibly valuable and sensitive ecological areas that require unflagging care in all aspects of intrusion.

Rain forests, no matter where they are located, are the primary producers of oxygen for the whole world and essential to the well-being and survival of global civilization.
As such, logically and morally, based upon reason and ethical tenets of civility, who do they belong to?
As an international, global standard, they should clearly not belong to corrupt individuals and governments that would "manage" them and sell them out to the highest bidder; and they most notably DO NOT rightfully belong to US business multinationals for profit, "licensed" by easily bribed local governments or not.

The rain forests of the Amazon clearly belong only to the indigenous peoples that have lived within them and taken care of them for centuries. Civility demands that indigenous, sensitive human beings be treated with the utmost respect. Their homeland and sanctuary should clearly be treated internationally as inviolable.

Amazon jungles and the indigenous peoples that reside in them, all wildlife and the delicate ecosystem require and deserve to be treated as private property with the utmost care.
Is there a precedent for that concept? A measure of global civilization is how well we treat the weakest members of our society.

We in North America do not even allow our neighbour's pets to savagely dig up or foul our own back yards. We express outrage at those who would arbitrarily dirty or allow destruction of our comfort, dignity, homes, locale, and livelihoods.

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