Periodic reminder that #Brazil stared into the abyss of fascism just like us and came through because:
Voting is not only not suppressed, it is compulsory from the ages of 18-65, and it is made accessible.
and
Brazil's #SupremeCourt has steadfastly defended their Constitution.
Remember that Bolsonaro had help from Bannon et al. to try to stage his own "big lie" when he lost, and Brazil had their own version of January 6 that fortunately failed.
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon Fell 68% in April 2023.
"Still a lot more to do but this is the impact of electing an environmentalist like Lula over a right-wing populist like Bolsonaro," said one observer.
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest decreased compared with last year, according to preliminary government data published Friday.
The finding reflects positively on the administration of leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has vowed to make the destruction of the crucial ecosystem "a thing of the past."
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show that messaging platform Telegram has been restricted on leading internet providers in #Brazil; the incident comes as a court orders the service's suspension over its refusal to supply user data on far-right groups
⚠️BRASILIA, #Brazil (AP) — The Negro River, the #Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this part of the world´s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding. #ClimateCrisis
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
#ClimateDiary I feel stupid - these fires, which have been burning for over a week now in #Brazil’s #Pantanal, the largest #wetlands on the planet, had somehow completely passed me by. The #Heatwave, #Drought and #Wildfires in Brazil are really alarming, yet seem hardly in (my) news. Is lack of coverage going to be another troubling dimension of advancing #ClimateEmergency? Or maybe always been the case. Or maybe just me missing things. Pondering all this.
Climate catastrophe news. This is a before and after of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande del Sul, following four days of relentless torrential rain.
However, in better news, Rishi Sunak's climate policy has been declared unlawful by the High Court this morning (via Adam Bienkov of Byline, see tweet). I'll post the link to the judgment when it surfaces.
Report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court
Due to the severe #drought in #Brazil river levels in Manaus have plummeted by 13 metres, exposing pre-Columbian face carvings.
They remind me the Hunger Stones erected in Central Europe which have “If you see me, then weep” carved into them.
These stones were embedded into a river during #droughts to mark the #water level as a warning to future generations that they will have to endure famine-related hardships if the water sinks to this level again.
Planet Earth was not only record warm July through September 2023 but was also unusually dry. Globally, this was the lowest July-September precipitation since 2000. #Australia and #Malaysia, #Brazil, eastern #Europe and parts of Africa standout as unusually dry. Southwest US and eastern Mediterranean well above average precipitation. Data from ERA5 courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. #Climate#ClimateMonitoring@ZLabe@Climatologist49
*Inadvertently attached wrong graphic. Now with correct graphic.
In an interview with Mongabay, Brasílio Priprá, one of the pioneers of the Free Land Camp, the largest event of the Brazilian Indigenous movement, looks back on its 20 years of existence.
Priprá, who has been active in the Indigenous movement for 40 years, has seen few changes, but enough to keep fighting for his rights.
#Ecotourism is often presented as a sustainable #business model for communities at time of #climatechange, but behind vigorous virtue signalling can lie the usual exploitation & appropriation of #indigenous people's lives & cultures.
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – It was supposed to be a good-news story out of the damaged #Amazon rainforest: a project that replanted hundreds of thousands of #trees in an illegally deforested nature reserve in #Brazil.
Then it went up in flames, allegedly torched by land-grabbers trying to reclaim the territory for #cattle pasture.
Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022 – report
"#Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness.
At least 177 people were killed last year for defending the environment, according to new figures, with a fifth of killings taking place in the Amazon #rainforest.
Murdered by organised crime groups and land invaders, environmental defenders were killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022, figures from the NGO Global Witness show. Colombia was the most deadly country, recording 60 murders. #Indigenous communities were disproportionately represented in the figures, making up 34% of all murders, despite representing about 5% of the world’s population. The new figures mean that at least 1,910 environmental defenders have been killed between 2012 and 2022, according to Global Witness, with most of the murders going unpunished. #Brazil, #Mexico, #Honduras and the #Philippines were the most deadly countries in 2022 after Colombia.
Almost 90% of all killings were recorded in Latin America." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/environmental-activists-killed-at-a-rate-of-one-every-other-day-in-2022-global-witness-report-aoe
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro [ɔɾˈfew ˈneɣɾu]) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus, and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which set the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in a contemporary favela in...
In 2023, Brazilian Police discovered Neo-Nazi groups using social media to incite kids to commit school massacres. Twitter was the only company resisting their removal in a meeting with social media firms.
"The fires have ravaged thousands of hectares of forest since Friday, cloaking coastal cities in a dense fog of grey smoke and forcing people to flee their homes in the central regions of Vina del Mar and Valparaiso.
As Chile and Colombia battle rising temperatures, the heatwave is also threatening to sweep over Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil in the coming days."
"A #heatwave is affecting #Argentina, #Brazil, #Chile, #Uruguay, and #Paraguay with temperatures reaching 48 degrees Celsius [120F] and forecast to remain around or above 40 degrees [104F] for several days."
Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge (news.mongabay.com)
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
Russia says no to international probe into Prigozhin crash (www.politico.eu)
The Kremlin is under no obligation to undertake an investigation alongside Brazil, where the Wagner chief’s jet was built.
Amazon deforestation continues to plummet (grist.org)
August was another month of relatively good news for the Amazon rainforest: The rate of deforestation has continued to decline significantly....
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) - 1959 - starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello, directed by Marcel Camus (movie-web.app)
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro [ɔɾˈfew ˈneɣɾu]) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus, and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which set the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in a contemporary favela in...