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The Bolsonaro Government decrees the death of a part of the Amazon

2021-02-20T15:34:32.387Z


By authorizing the company controlled by Eletrobrás to dry out the Vuelta Grande del Xingú, the Brazilian environmental body has changed sides and has signed the permit to commit an ecocide in the largest tropical forest in the world


The Amazon is today the main reason why Brazil maintains a certain international relevance.

The main international agreements, such as Mercosur with the European Union, the largest of all, depend on the conservation of the largest tropical forest on the planet, the largest terrestrial carbon sink in the world.

The authorization and acceptance of Brazilian products in European markets and in the United States of Joe Biden are also increasingly dependent on the survival of the forest.

The Amazon, a strategic area for the control of global overheating, is increasingly ...

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