So? The US is also run by a lunatic similar to Bolsonaro. This doesn’t change that the rest of the world should fuck Brazil with every embargo possible and remove this piece of shit and his cronies with force if necessary.
You literally expect the USA to militarily invade or sanction a country for supplying a resource that the USA is creating the demand for, seriously?
I’m not expecting anything from the US anymore. It’s a failed experiment of a country at this point. But it’s not like the rest of the world is doing anything either.
The issue is that he is not the only one. It is a chain of individuals from corporate lobbying to politics, who wanted this.
People are quick to run from individual violent statements because it's easy to do so but capitalism gets away with so much fucking violence just because all of its threats of violence are implied or indirect, all, on the surface level, in the service of something else and people are just "getting in the way" or "disrupting" it, etc. Capitalism can violently and callously displace Native American tribes from their land to build an oil pipeline, and if you made any off-color statement about the people involved, that's bad, but anyone who supports that doesn't get called out for their "violence" because there's this thin veil of plausible deniability - "Of course I don't support the violence, it's just that..." that covers their asses. Capitalism is going to boil the planet to death but that's not violent because it's just "business" but don't make a joke about eating the rich. It's infuriating.
Summarized my frustrations to a T. We're looking what will potentially be the largest genocide in human history and no one responsible will face the music because of it.
Change from the govt won’t happen when such policies are both against the interest of big business and immensely unpopular with the general electorate, if Americans had to pay for meat without the huge subsidies that keep it cheap they’d riot before considering eating less beef, let alone the idea of taxing it on top.
What.the.fuck.
Changes won’t come from the individual. It never worked like that and it sure as hell won’t work with this change and at the rate it needs to happen.
To save the Amazon, not much. But what is happening in the Amazon is just one event more of the issues we have with our current development system: capitalism. I know this place hates individual small changes because "I want to save the world, but without changing my lifestyle"but you could start doing some changes yourself and try to serve as an example to others. If you have extra income, look for organizations that help indigenous people, the forest, animals in the region and donate. Start helping the many issues your place could have. We need empathy, a radical empathy more than ever. So start with what you have close to you.
People in the West are so afraid of changing radically their lifestyles, they rather tell you to vote and hope that will change things.
Want to highlight this part:
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I'm hardly an expert, but I think the most effective thing to do right now is to donate to the indigenous people. They have a vested interest in protecting the forest and are likely working to fight the fires where they can, so the funds would probably go directly into stopping the current disaster.
The comments....
Makes my blood boil. Gotta keep it civil though. Otherwise we might go 0 - 8chan before you can say, "tis an outrage".
There was a paper in 2011 that predicted 2050.
The NGOs evildoers ride in bicycles. They are clearly burning the Amazon forest to show Bolsonaro.
