" #Brazil is globally relevant because more than 60 percent of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest lies within its borders. This is what makes the far right’s advance in the first round of the elections a concern to the entire world population. To fail to realize this is to fail to grasp what is at stake in our era—and failing to grasp what is at stake today might cost the future of our children and the children of other species, species whose parents cannot vote but are directly affected by our good or bad choices.
If Flávio Bolsonaro beats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff, there is a high probability the Forest will cease to exist as Forest, which means it will no longer function as a climate regulator or carbon sink, absorbing one of the gases that produces global heating.
There will be bare land, converted for grazing cattle, raising soybean monoculture, and extracting ores and oil, but there will be no Forest. There will be other types of vegetation, but there will be no Forest. The rainfall cycle will be altered, and even the agribusiness sector that today destroys the Forest and cheers on Flávio Bolsonaro will lose, and lose big.
This is the very near future looming before us. But it seems Brazil and the world have not realized this clearly enough."
https://sumauma.com/en/o-que-vai-acontecer-com-a-floresta-e-com-a-gente-se-flavio-bolsonaro-ganhar/
#elections #rainforest #amazon #environment #Lula #bolsonaro #climate #climatecrisis #carbon
