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Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation advancing at its fastest rate during May

Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
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Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro. Read full article

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  • Enrique Massot

    This comes to show the real side of Jair Bolsonaro: a man who presents himself as religious but whose real God is but the almighty dollar.

    A destroyed Amazon will never come back; its fragile soils will be washed away and the original biodiversity will never be back.

    What a sad example of human recklessness.

    Jun 05th, 2019 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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    @Enrique Massot

    REF: “What a sad example of human recklessness.”:

    But at least SOMETHING is advancing at its fastest rate during May! You sound as if the end of the world is just around the corner! [Maybe, you are not wrong!]
    http://www.chargeonline.com.br/php/charges/claudio.jpg

    Jun 06th, 2019 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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