“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.”
Tag: rainforest
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
Amazon burns – but why?
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…
