Silent massacre in the Amazon Rainforest: Oil and gas leaks covering the rainforest with thick, black mud are a harbinger of health and environmental destruction.
by Novel_Negotiation224
Silent massacre in the Amazon Rainforest: Oil and gas leaks covering the rainforest with thick, black mud are a harbinger of health and environmental destruction.
by Novel_Negotiation224
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Polluters should pay. No??!
Besides the obvious (the ruined lives and the damage and destruction to the indigenous and the wildlife and the land) I’m always dumbfounded (or maybe just dumb;) why we haven’t come up with better options using solar power/energy? I understand it’s expensive and bulky, but are we not smart enough to figure out a better way? B*ut, we keep focusing on newer cell phones and computers and self driving vehicles and things I just don’t think is necessary!*
“What’s happening?
The Peruvian [Amazon rainforest](https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/amazon-river-drought-brazil-photos/) is one of the world’s most biodiverse spots, home to an incredible array of plant and animal species. It’s also home to one of the globe’s largest populations of “peoples in isolation and initial contact.”
However, indigenous territories in the Amazon are currently under threat as the government auctions off land for oil and gas extraction. Peru’s existing and proposed oil and gas blocks overlap with 3.95 million acres of indigenous reserves, according to an [analysis](https://earth-insight.org/insight/piaci-threats-oil-and-gas-peru/) by Earth Insight.
With oil and gas spills covering the rainforest in a thick, black sludge, researchers warn of the health and [environmental consequences](https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/amazon-rainforest-resilience-drought-recovery-ecosystem-satellite/). For the Indigenous people living in the rainforest, the onslaught of pollution has already caused health complications. Women have reportedly experienced increased nausea and miscarriages, while men have developed skin rashes and unexplained illnesses.
“Whenever oil companies — or any type of extractivist company — come, they bring diseases. We are condemned with sicknesses, nausea and open sores,” Colombian Indigenous leader Fany Kuiru Castro [told](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/17/ive-seen-the-dark-fat-grease-stuck-to-the-leaves-oil-and-gas-encroach-on-perus-uncontacted-peoples) The Guardian. “They are putting the life and the cultural existence of Indigenous people at risk. It’s a silent genocide.”
Just like they did in Africa
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