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Brazilian Amazon’s Tipping Point May Already Be Here
It’s not just the government and industrial farmers. Voracious consumers all over the world are also guilty of killing the “lungs of the Earth.”
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The destruction of Brazil’s rainforest may have passed the point of no return.
But the perpetrators of its demise aren’t just government officials doing the bidding of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro or the industrial farmers profiting from clear-cutting. It’s all about demand, and voracious consumers the world over are also fueling the frenzy that’s killing the “lungs of the Earth.”