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To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers

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Brazil<br />

only that big Amazon would help save <strong>the</strong> actual Amazon.<br />

If<br />

in <strong>Be</strong>rmuda, or wherever, having sucked millions annually out <strong>of</strong><br />

armchair<br />

and not having to pay for any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> disaster he’s caused. 50<br />

California,<br />

corporate gobbling and getting rich thing is really bo<strong>the</strong>rsome to me.<br />

is<br />

also boggles me why a corporation is considered a person under <strong>the</strong> law,<br />

It<br />

<strong>the</strong> same rights as you and I. Now, a corporation is not actually a<br />

with<br />

because a person has a soul. And, besides that, if a corporation was a<br />

person,<br />

I think <strong>the</strong>y would be su ering from a multiple personality disorder<br />

person,<br />

er all those mergers and limited liability things are sorted out.<br />

a<br />

Now back to Amazon.<br />

at corporation is one <strong>of</strong> my favorite corporations;<br />

love that Amazon Prime. Now, Amazon is getting bigger. Je <strong>Be</strong>zos, <strong>the</strong><br />

I<br />

has done well. <strong>Be</strong>zos is <strong>the</strong> rst person in modern history to<br />

,<br />

a fortune <strong>of</strong> over $200 billion, according to <strong>the</strong> latest Forbes<br />

accumulate<br />

<strong>of</strong> his net worth. e company is now worth $1.49 trillion. 51<br />

estimates<br />

e rainforests<br />

getting clear cut, dams are breaking and killing people, mining<br />

are<br />

are running amuck, and Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has<br />

companies<br />

an assault on environmental and Amazon protections by<br />

launched<br />

<strong>the</strong> regulation <strong>of</strong> Indigenous reserves to <strong>the</strong> agriculture<br />

transferring<br />

— a ministry known to be controlled by <strong>the</strong> powerful agribusiness<br />

ministry<br />

lobby.<br />

at <strong>the</strong> 2019 Bioneers Conference, executive director <strong>of</strong> Amazon<br />

Speaking<br />

Leila Salazar-López, notes that Brazil had over 100,000 res in 2019<br />

Watch,<br />

burning 3 million hectares <strong>of</strong> Amazon forest, and puts <strong>the</strong> blame for<br />

alone,<br />

squarely on <strong>the</strong> shoulders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bolsonaro administration:<br />

this<br />

lot <strong>of</strong> people ask us, well, who’s responsible?… It is <strong>the</strong> Bolsonaro<br />

A<br />

Let’s not make light <strong>of</strong> it. e Brazilian government has …<br />

government.<br />

only <strong>the</strong> rhetoric, but <strong>the</strong> policies to destroy <strong>the</strong> Amazon to make<br />

not<br />

for economic development, to make way for agribusiness, to make<br />

way<br />

for soy and cattle, to make way for mining. It is <strong>the</strong>ir policy to<br />

way<br />

<strong>the</strong> Amazon for economic development. So it’s not a mistake.<br />

destroy<br />

It’s not a wild re. It’s intentional, and malicious, and destructive.…<br />

e<br />

moment Bolsonaro got in o<br />

ce, he rolled back <strong>the</strong> rights <strong>of</strong> Indigenous<br />

merged environmental and agribusiness ministries to<br />

peoples,<br />

destroy <strong>the</strong> lands and <strong>the</strong> rights <strong>of</strong> Indigenous peoples. 52<br />

intentionally

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