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Re:Brazil has the power to save the Amazon rainforest, or de... by vhogemann on Sunday August 04, 2019 @09:40AM (#20606449)
It's not about poor people trying to make a living. It's about rich people trying to get even more rich.

Wood, Soybeans and Cattle. The agricultural industry is behind this.

Re:Brazil has the power to save the Amazon rainforest, or de... by dubeux on Sunday August 04, 2019 @10:14AM (#20606637)
^ This! Perfect. The glorious agrobusiness keeps boasting how great they are to Brazilian economy. Well, for more of the usual (huge inequity, deforestation, the largest use of agrotoxics in the world and everything on the package - terrible education, almost exclusively extractive economy, a militar police that ranks among the most lethal in the world...), yes, that's the way.
Re:Brazil has the power to save the Amazon rainforest, or de... by ivanhoe on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:39AM (#20613243)
Yes, and they get rich by exporting those goods.. to West, among others... same thing as poachers in Africa don't sell ivory to Africans, they sell it to the West and Asia...