More anti-extractive raids please :lula-bars:
This might be wishful thinking but I am curious if his false imprisonment by the guy he just ran in an election against + all the chuds larping a coup will result in a slightly more radical presidency from him
He's in a large coalition with a bunch of neoliberal and conservative parties that came together because their main ideology was pro-democracy and anti-bolsonarism. His main rival in the 1990s, Fernando Cardoso, met with Lula and recorded several videos in support of him, telling how the two were close friends and how both were against the dictatorship in the 1980s. But it seems that most of the population supports the purges.
think about it this way:
a succdem in, say, the UK is doing damage control capitalism. ie trying to make sure the pillaging of the NHS isn't too severe.
a succdem in Brazil is also doing damage control. but they are trying to make sure the welfare project isn't derailed half of the way into it's implementation.
Lula isn't the revolutionary vanguard because Brazil, as a whole, is a defeated country from the cold war. neither it's state capitalist nor its left-wing nation projects were allowed to survive the washington consensus. the older quarter of the population was propagandized with anti communist propaganda. the younger quarter might even genuinely believe in the sort of hackfraud capitalist that libertarians propose. but a lot of people in all classes of society understand that being a peripheric economy is a death sentence. so at the end of the day something like a Lula has the support of a rather heterogeneous coalition and is capable of doing real good along the way
Still in stem the bleeding territory but damn is it good to see someone stem the bleeding
It’s also important to figure out who is paying for it. And to get them next.
and mining and also soy farming there is a big collective effort to just fuck up the amazon
the mining in amazon is a newer trend, but it is been growing during the bolsonaro years, a lot of news about invading native land if you want me to point you towards a real big pile of human misery, farming is literally the second biggest one and like it may be for feeding the livestock but that could be said about farming in brazil in general, this is not for us to eat, don't care if they are burning the amazon to sell it for foreigners or feed their livestock, shouldn't be doing it either, also lula did single out the 3 and wood manufacturers as the responsible recently so i am feeling these are all paying for it too and should be punished
i have no doubt that mining may also be a driver of deforestation, but i havent been able to find any data anywhere to indicate that its impact on deforestation has outstripped cattle ranching (the best info i can see puts it at 23% of deforestation in indigenous territories in 2020)
this is not for us to eat
brazil is the worlds largest beef and soy exporter. if not for the global growth in monstrously inefficient animal agriculture (among its many other faults), this land would not need to be deforested in order to feed anyone and the biggest driver of deforestation (both historical and recent) would have been removed. animal agriculture is the worlds largest driver of tropical deforestation and its not even close, and per capita meat consumption trends substantially highest in wealthy western countries
this is not for us to eat
brazil: we developed a type of soy that can grow in the acidic savannah that makes up the center of the country
also brazil: 1kg of tofu is more expensive than 1kg of poultry
:meow-tableflip: goddamn gringos and saudi stop buying meat
Those cattle’s aren’t being ranched for fun - there is a chain of money and actions that at the LEAST need to be called out.
Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes
:maybe-later-honey: Uuuuh, sorry sweaty! They're still destroying the rainforest, sorry to ruin your "fun".
We'll catch the last deforestor, even if it means cutting down every last tree to find them.
Reuters exclusively accompanied raids led by environmental agency Ibama
Thanks
ObamaIbama :obama-socialism:I would love of anti-extraction bounty hunter became archetype in Solarpunk scifi
Would be kinda rad to see some Solarpunk hunter with like a bio-mechnical eye take a fat rip from some cannabis cigar of some type and then say "What the hell, I'm in." as they go after phantom capitalists. It's like Captain Planet but with right to bear arms.
lol the agent "getting ready" just standing there with an Amazon parrot on her shoulder
raiding a logging camp / cattle farm, with a parrot partner perched on her shoulder...
could it be? have we perhaps found the mythical One Good Cop?
Tomorrow:
Lula tragically found dead from several gunshot wounds to the back of the head, it is being ruled a suicide
