Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
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
Isn't a lot of it for cattle ranching?
and mining and also soy farming there is a big collective effort to just fuck up the amazon
vast majority is for cattle ranching (see the graph near the bottom in particular, though note it only goes to 2013), and the vast majority of the soy is used for animal feed
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)
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
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i meant it got bigger
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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
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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.