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Fears of Bolsonaro’s Threat to Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55% 

“Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them.”

Source: Fears of Bolsonaro’s Threat to Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55% | Common Dreams News

nemonemini Uncategorized May 9, 2020 1 Minute

The Amazon at a Tipping Point 

The Amazon rainforest is a crucial life-support ecosystem. Without its wondrous strength and power to generate hydrologic systems across the sky (as far north as Iowa), absorb and store carbon (CO2), and its miraculous life-giving endless supply of oxygen, civilization would cease to exist beyond scattered tribes, here and there. More

Source: The Amazon at a Tipping Point – CounterPunch.org

nemonemini Uncategorized December 24, 2019 1 Minute

  Amazon burns – but why?

Source: [Marxism] Amazon burns – but why?

nemonemini Uncategorized Leave a comment August 25, 2019 1 Minute

Capitalist Götterdämmerung

Source: In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a Showdown Over Amazon Rainforest 

This is a grotesque decline even in the standard of capitalism which while consistently predatory was still short of the irrational madness it has become.

We end up with a choice: abolish capitalism, before or after it has burnt out the planet…

nemonemini Uncategorized Leave a comment July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 1 Minute

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