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Amazon deforestation for Cargill, and ADM

samedi 7 octobre 2023 à 12:34

Two giant agricultural trading companies, Cargill and ADM, successfully campaigned to prevent a treaty that would stop sales of soy beans grown on deforested land.

That enabled deforestation to continue at high speed. This deforestation has brought the Amazon rainforest close to a tipping point which could destroy that forest and this destroy civilization.

This was when Bolsonaro was president of Brazil. I would guess that he also worked to prevent that agreement. Lula has decreased deforestation, but an international agreement would decrease it a lot more.