The coronavirus pandemic may have caused a global economic slowdown, but it hasn’t affected the rising rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. The destruction has continued unabated, and forest clearing over the past year has reached the highest level on record. The country’s national space and research institute,…
Similarly, fossil fuel projects all around the US are treated as essential. Extraction must go on, no matter the environmental/human cost (but then, we already knew that).
