The most bizarre aspect is that indigenous people are constantly killed there, and no one seems to mind. In some areas, people are unable to fish because the water is contaminated with mercury. You’ll need a gringo martir to get people to care about you. If Bruno were alone, he would most likely not make the news.
It feels good to put the deaths of indigenous peoples, journalists, and others on the backs of environmentally destructive murders. Anyone who participates in this consumer society has blood on their hands.
I wish more people were concerned about this.
> The frontlines of this war are the Earth’s remaining biodiverse regions – the forests, wetlands and oceans that are essential for the stability of our climate and planetary life-support system.
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> The integrity of these systems is under attack from organised crime and criminal governments who want to exploit timber, water and minerals for short-term, often illegal profits.
The biggest threat to all these environments is animal agriculture. Illegal or not. For example 90% of all Amazon deforestation happened (and continues to happen) to create grazing land for cattle or grow soy that gets fed to cattle (in Brazil and throughout the world including UK).
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The most bizarre aspect is that indigenous people are constantly killed there, and no one seems to mind. In some areas, people are unable to fish because the water is contaminated with mercury. You’ll need a gringo martir to get people to care about you. If Bruno were alone, he would most likely not make the news.
It feels good to put the deaths of indigenous peoples, journalists, and others on the backs of environmentally destructive murders. Anyone who participates in this consumer society has blood on their hands.
I wish more people were concerned about this.
> The frontlines of this war are the Earth’s remaining biodiverse regions – the forests, wetlands and oceans that are essential for the stability of our climate and planetary life-support system.
>
> The integrity of these systems is under attack from organised crime and criminal governments who want to exploit timber, water and minerals for short-term, often illegal profits.
The biggest threat to all these environments is animal agriculture. Illegal or not. For example 90% of all Amazon deforestation happened (and continues to happen) to create grazing land for cattle or grow soy that gets fed to cattle (in Brazil and throughout the world including UK).