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Destroying the Amazon Rainforests

Via the Washington Post

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/amazon-beef-deforestation-brazil/

Cattle ranching, responsible for the great majority of deforestation in the Amazon, is pushing the forest to the edge of what scientists warn could be a vast and irreversible dieback that claims much of the biome. Despite agreement that change is necessary to avert disaster, despite attempts at reform, despite the resources of Brazil’s federal government and powerful beef companies, the destruction continues...

Climate Problems, Climate Solutions

• https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-shifting-diets-away-from-beef-could-cut-brazils-emissions/

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