“The representatives of the people are, in fact, the representatives of those who deforest.”
A year ago, Jonathan Watts: “Despite evidence that fire, drought and land clearance are pushing the Amazon towards a point of no return, they say theHe said that the “onslaught on forest safeguards has picked up pace.”
So perhaps it is no surprise that the people involved in that onslaught have found their ways into positions in which they can “legally” make decisions about the Amazon’s precious trees and fauna. “Those who deforest the Amazon completely dominate local politics, both through economic power and through violence,” Alexandre Saraiva, who was chief of the federal police in Amazonas state until last year, told.
And deforestation is happening at an astounding rate. Reuters reported that 166 square miles of trees in the Amazon were destroyed in January, which was five times higher than in January 2021, according to preliminary satellite data from government space research agency Inpe. As one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, the Amazon is one big key to slowing global warming. On a local level, the destruction of the rainforest means less freshwater for agriculture.
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