The Amazon rainforest emerges as the new global oil frontier, which now holds nearly one-fifth of the world’s recently discovered oil and natural gas reserves

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1. THAT’S DEPRESSING!

2. We’re hosed

3. …

   >Royalties from the industry have exacerbated inequality rather than fostering local development, saddling the region with deforestation and water pollution from oil operations.

   Yeah, it’s the externalization of costs.

   I can’t even. I hope that the ranchers setting fire to the forests accidentally set fire to the oil infrastructure. That’s it, that’s the kind of hope I have left.

4. The world is over if the Amazon is cut down any further. Game over for the planet. The West should wh paying money to Brazil under the condition that it stops cutting anything down and instead regrows the forest.

5. Fuuuuuuuuuuck

6. Last two climate conferences were in Qatar and Azerbaijan. Next one in Brazil. They may as well have the one after that in Houston. 

7. Dont do it guys

8. We are doomed

9. Like trading a lung for a carton of cigarettes.

10. “Well looks like it’s about time to destroy one of the few remaining (and already threatened) vestiges of wilderness for petroleum and shareholder value”.

11. LEAVE THE AMAZON ALONE (except for research and sequestration purposes.)

12. No. Not allowed

13. Uhhh, I give up

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