Brazil set to carve motorway through Amazon rainforest

[shinobi602]

Makes sense. The climate crisis isn't accelerating fast enough. Warp speed.


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Brazil is set to pave a major motorway through the centre of the Amazon rainforest, which could increase deforestation and open up untouched areas to logging.

The country's environmental authority granted an initial permit yesterday that will allow a road constructed by the military dictatorship in the 1970s to be upgraded.
The route fell into disrepair after the dictatorship and the harsh conditions of the rainforest left much of it impassable during the country's six-month rainy season.

On the campaign trail, the right-wing President Bolsonaro pledged to repave the road, known as BR-319, to link Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon, to the rest of Brazil all year round.

Deforestation in the Amazon reached a 15-year high in 2021, climbing 22% compared to the previous year, according to a report by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. The official data showed that 5,110 square miles (13,235 sq km) were lost between August 2020 and July 2021 — the highest rate since 2006. In the past three years an area of tree cover the size of Belgium (11,583 square miles) was cleared.

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Jair Bolsonaro to carve motorway through Amazon rainforest

Brazil is set to pave a major motorway through the centre of the Amazon rainforest, which could increase deforestation and open up untouched areas to logging.

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

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Humans can't be trusted with power.

 

[Potterson]

Remember your paper straws, folks, together we can fight the climate change!

 

[DiipuSurotu]

 

[Rowsdower]

Reading through, it seems the road already exists and they're just repaving/upgrading it?

Still shouldn't touch the Amazon, but better then building a brand new road.

 

[neoak]

Reading through, it seems the road already exists and they're just repaving/upgrading it?

Still shouldn't touch the Amazon, but better then building a brand new road.

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It shouldn't exist

 

[Keyser S]

Yeah, the road is already there (dirt road. temporary), they are just making it easier to travel by paving - which will increase destruction of the surrounding land by an insane order of magnitude

 

[Morten88]

Sad fucking news

 

[RolandGunner]

Fortunately this is just an initial permit and Brazil has an election in two months. There's plenty of time for Lula to stop this assuming he wins.

 

[Mancha]

We need Lula to stop this shit. Only 62 days til Election Day now. We will need all the international attention we can get here so we don't get a new Capitol situation or worse, so please keep reading and sharing news like this.

 

[Chiaroscuro]

Context: the "highway " already existed since the 70s, but its condition is very poor due to the forest climate. It was paved in the 70s, this is just a restoration project.

There is some need for it (valid reasons) like there are cities which only connection to the rest of the country is by this road/river. Amazonas Capital City, Manaus is only accessible by flight, which insanely rises costs there.

However there is always the valid worries too.

 

[Mancha]

Context: the "highway " already existed since the 70s, but its condition is very poor due to the forest climate. It was paved in the 70s, this is just a restoration project.

There is some need for it (valid reasons) like there are cities which only connection to the rest of the country is by this road/river. Amazonas Capital City, Manaus is only accessible by flight, which insanely rises costs there.

However there is always the valid worries too.

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This doesn't justify the cost of putting asphalt there. We need help from other countries and the international community to keep the Amazon safe and with Lula becoming President, we can get back to actual reasonable environment policies that aren't focused on destroying the planet for a quick buck. There is a lot of absurd shit happening in Amazonas right now that need our attention and that people outside here should be aware of, the news on the OP is one of them, but this is another awful Bolsonaro influenced policy in a long line of shit.


Like this:

Killing, outrage … impunity: can the Amazon break its cycle of violence?

Before the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, Chico Mendes’ murder in 1988 and Dorothy Stang’s assassination in 2005 shook Brazil

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The future of Amazon journalism after British reporter's brutal murder

Recent murders in a remote area of the western Amazon have drawn attention to the criminal dynamics at play in the rainforest.

brazilian.report

Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

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The legacy of Ricardo Salles as Brazil's Environment Minister

As Environment Minister, Ricardo Salles was very closely aligned with President Jair Bolsonaro's vision of “development.”

brazilian.report

Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles resigns amid Amazon illegal logging probe | CNN

Brazil's controversial environment minister, Ricardo Salles, announced Wednesday that he was stepping down from the position amid an investigation into allegations he obstructed a police probe into illegal logging.

edition.cnn.com

Brazil environment minister quits amid inquiry into illegal Amazon logging

As talks with US over protecting the rainforest stall, Ricardo Salles faces a criminal investigation

www.theguardian.com

 

[Musubi]

Humans can't be trusted with power.

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Fixed that for you.

 

[Senator Toadstool]

Context: the "highway " already existed since the 70s, but its condition is very poor due to the forest climate. It was paved in the 70s, this is just a restoration project.

There is some need for it (valid reasons) like there are cities which only connection to the rest of the country is by this road/river. Amazonas Capital City, Manaus is only accessible by flight, which insanely rises costs there.

However there is always the valid worries too.

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Manaus should be slowly abandoned. It should not exist. Or it should be like Hawaii and realize things increase in cost when you build up places that are rightfully inaccessible

 

[Senator Toadstool]

Makes sense. The climate crisis isn't accelerating fast enough. Warp speed.


View: https://twitter.com/Times__Earth/status/1553374037929328642?s=20&t=Pvb2HfX81J0BREX98-mQAw

Jair Bolsonaro to carve motorway through Amazon rainforest

Brazil is set to pave a major motorway through the centre of the Amazon rainforest, which could increase deforestation and open up untouched areas to logging.

www.thetimes.co.uk

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I wish people could not frame everything about the climate crisis (because they affects them)

This will devastate local indigenous communities as well and just as important

 

[mreddie]

Good news: It's just to repave the road that is dirt.
BAD NEWS: So they can deforest quicker.

Doesn't this fuck have an election coming up?

 

[Tomasoares]

As much as this might increase deflorestarion, Manaus city needs to be connected with the rest of the country.

Still, fuck Bolsonaro.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Fortunately this is just an initial permit and Brazil has an election in two months. There's plenty of time for Lula to stop this assuming he wins.

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We need Lula to stop this shit. Only 62 days til Election Day now. We will need all the international attention we can get here so we don't get a new Capitol situation or worse, so please keep reading and sharing news like this.

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What are the chances Lula wins?

 

[Rosebud]

What are the chances Lula wins?

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Very big if polls are to be trusted, Bolsonaro fucked our economy

 

[Clefargle]

Awful awful awful awful idea

 

[Senator Toadstool]

What are the chances Lula wins?

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He's far ahead in polls

 

[kess]

Washington Post: He's been called a deforester and killer. Now he's called mayor.

I mean, Montana elected a dude who physically assaulted a journalist, but here's a dude who has likely killed dozens of people and wears it as a badge of honor, and he's not the only one.

 

[Ra]

Me and mine will be siding with the AI when it/they decide humans must be subjugated to guarantee the Earth's survival.

A cursory walk through on who we've allow to rise to leadership in our civilization says we're incompetent stewards.

 

[j7vikes]

As humans we have many things we disagree on but we all hate the environment.

 

[Clefargle]

Maybe Lula will win and we can avert this awful future

 

[spookyduzt]

 

[carlosrso]

Manaus need this link, there are 2 million people there. The problem is not on this axis, is with the illegal miners and extensive cattle producers.
Also fuck Bolsonaro.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

Wasnt the road already being repaired under Lula and Dilma or am I misremebering? What is different about this?

 

[DIE BART DIE]

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?