I have heard from a Brazilian who is dismayed about Bolsonaro and what is happening to their country under his rule. "Brazil is a huge country, rich in biodiversity (so far), world's food producer and so that is being now misgoverned by the most dangerous idiot in the world... ...anxiety here is high."
Does anyone have any thoughts to add to this situation? Calling all Brazilians and all light workers to weigh in here.
Thank you Jeanne by opening this topic.
It's me the Brazilian in despair...
Well, there are a lot of atrocities going on in Brazil, more than usual, but, what may have a worldwide concern and also the next generations', is that the deforestation is munching Amazon Forest. The government took advantage of coronavirus drawing much attention, also added a lot of misinformation and confusion to unbalance our minds, and facilitated the destruction of the forest with disabling the agencies that care the environment, legalizing wood from illegal deforestation and legalizing illegal forest occupation for invaders (farmers, miners, and real states). Last year Amazon burnt as never before... ...this year, the deforestation is 50% faster than last year....
Apart of being a biodiversity hotspot, nest of ancient cultures, etc., Amazon Forest regulates the climate in South America. The rain that irrigates sugar-cane, soy bean, corn, coffee, rice, beans, pastures, comes from the underground of Amazon: the trees collect such water and pump to the atmosphere where is carried by the winds towards south. Deforesting, the cycle gets unbalanced. Beginning this year (February, March, 2020) we had massive rainfall that killed dozens in some states here, a rainfall never registered in Brazil. Now, there are states suffering from drought, also never registered in such scale.
Unfortunately, I am not gifted as you are to predict by sensing the future, I just collect information and try to make sense.
If some of you could look into such matter, would be great...
Cheers
Brazil’s health minister resigns after one month. Following Bolsonaro is like following another Trumper governor except Brazil is Latin America’s largest nation.
He has now put a general, who has zero health experience,in charge of health to take over how they should handle the pandemic there.
These right wing militant leaders, just as in the United States, increasingly give me the impression that they do not care who dies, it’s only about money.
So the very wealthiest isolate in their remote luxury retreats, flying on private airplanes, while 100,000 people die. It isn’t an elite rallying call of “let them eat cake,” it’s a rallying call of “let them just die.”
If you subscribe to ProPublica.com, You already know that Trump funneled $20 million in aid to a private jet company that donates to his campaign and Betsy Devos, Funneled aid to her favorite private schools.
None of this surprises me, it’s just so ugly and dark.
@dhyanaji At the moment, Red is not planning to give up the WH. It will take a strong and focused and massive effort to get blue in the WH. At the moment, I am filling out post colored marker post cards to alert Georgia voters that they have been thrown off the rolls.
@dhyanaji thank you by coming back to Brazilian issues.
I live in Sao Paulo, a metropolis, but I already lived there at Amazon, researched the waters, knew the people there...
The old traditions are still working well to the indigenous, they are able to live their lives as it were thousands of years ago IF we don't mess their lands and waters.
We have a special institution to deal with them, to keep them safe from invaders and so, FUNAI. Working together with IBAMA (environmental inst.) we used to have more or less the situation under control. Sadly, the institutions are being dismantled by the government, even institutions to monitor the forest coverage and climate there. Now, the government gave free entrance to miners, farmers, loggers, etc. to get there and do anything. Actually, the very minister of the environment legalized the wood illegally cut from Amazon. My heart brakes...
I m not sensitive, but it's not hard to foretell that within 2 or 3 years, our fields in Brazil wont produce as much as we do now, 1/7th of total planet food is under menace...
Cutting down/burning the forest, will block the process that the trees suck the water from underground and evaporate to atmosphere - a volume bigger than the Amazon River goes to the atmosphere. That moisture is brought southwards were our crop fields receive the rain. Without enough trees, no moisture, no rain, no food...
Worldwide problem...
Anyone to see whether worldwide starvation may occur within few years?...
I just wanted the president to be prosecuted in the International Crime Court.... ...asap....
Thank you for giving us this very informative, first-hand insight into the plight of the Rainforests as it stands now.They are truly the 'lungs' of our whole Earth and truly irreplaceable.
It's deeply concerning and saddening to learn of the further wholesale destruction of habitat currently in these most destabilizing circumstances, both for the indigenous peoples and the millions of unique animal species that call the Amazon home. I was surprised to learn that the Amazon spans actually 9 countries as well, a vast area!
Speaking of Brazil specifically, and the enigmatic Amazon river.... there are endangered species there now like pink River dolphin that are beloved the world over and will be deeply missed if extinct for all time... with each loss it is another huge loss for the world.
In our country the US, the corruption is rampant in regard to all wilderness lands that can be cruelly exploited, by politically 'sanctioned', privateering big money corporations mainly... lands that are held in 'public trust' for future generations supposedly. And their non-human inhabitants are suffering greatly as a result of course, with America's Wild Horses being faced with extinction in the near future, as well as other indigenous species ... (I say 'indigenous' here as the horse originated in North America, just to be clear).
As in Brazil, governmental corruption is all- consuming... although there are many who passionately advocate for true Democracy and the essential environmental protections that have been obliterated under the current regime.....
My heart goes out to you there, and so do prayers and intentions for a better world to emerge from this devastation that is plaguing us all, and our beloved wild lands..... ?
The great Chief Si'ahl (Seattle) once said :
"This we know. The Earth does not belong to Man. Man belongs to the Earth.
All things are connected, like the blood that unites us all.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
While I was contemplating all of the similarities between our two countries' corrupt politicians, I had a very distinct impression of Bolsonaro being ousted by 2021, maybe violently. He seems to be covered in white bandages and carried limply, as if lifeless or wounded.
In his place by late 2021, or early '22 (?), I see a woman taking power, although things don't radically improve for the Amazon by then. Climate change, greed, and this new leader's main focus on a stronger economy and finances will be major factors in the slow regeneration, but I feel that the world will be much more involved in protecting the Amazon, the River and the Rainforests.
I am hoping that these impressions are going to be for the better... I hesitate to say anything when I get a very strong one these days, as nothing is cast in stone, and timelines can be warped somehow.
Please don't give up the fight, as it is, and will be one of the most important of our century, no doubt.
With love and light...?