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BellingenNSWThe Amazon is everywhere
"A handful of global giants dominate the industrialisation of the Amazon #rainforest, extracting tens of billions of dollars of raw materials every year, according to an analysis that highlights how much value is being sucked out of the region with relatively little going back in."
"The combination of irresponsible behaviour by some private companies with “the dismantling of public #conservation and #Indigenous policies in the past four years led to a twofold increase in deforestation rates in the region compared to the previous ten years average.”
"One of the problems, observers say, is that an extractivist development model has prevailed in the Brazilian Amazon ever since it was opened up by the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s."
"This logic, which has prevailed since the first European colonisers invaded South America more than 500 years ago, is now under intense scrutiny because the Amazon is so degraded that scientists warn this pillar of the global climate is close to collapse."
Excerpts via:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/02/the-multinational-companies-that-industrialised-the-amazon-rainforest
#TNCs #SupplyChain #Cattle #Meat #Mining #Logging #Deforestation #Eucalyptus #Plantations #Roads #Extractivism #Destruction #Biodiversity #Climate regulator
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