The battle for the Amazon's future - BBC News
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2021
- One of the world’s greatest defences against climate change - the Amazon rainforest - is under growing attack from deforestation.
But many of those working and making a living in it - including those cutting down its trees - say they depend on the forest and its resources for their own survival.
On Tuesday at the COP26 climate summit, more than 100 countries, covering about 85% of the world's rainforests, are due to sign a pledge promising to stop deforestation by 2030.
Brazil is among the signatories, although President Jair Bolsonaro is not attending the summit and deforestation has surged under his leadership.
BBC international correspondent Orla Guerin visited Brazil’s Rondônia state and met four people with differing views: a logger, an environmental policeman, a cattle rancher and an environmental activist.
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The lungs of the planet are being destroyed by the cancer of greed
No they are being destroyed by the tragedy of the commons
Get off your lazy ass and build another amazon. It was planted by humans. It can be done again!
Ironic then, since we roll over and give all our powers and rights away to the same oppressors for fear over a minor lung disease which they allowed to become a pandemic. We will all be starving and running like rats by 2050 at this rate, conservatively speaking. The time line is greatly speeding up as feedback loops are coming into effect while human pollution and exploitation is only increasing.~2021
That's a very narrow view on what is going on. Climate change isn't killing the planet; it's altering the environment in a way that is less hospitable to the current distribution of animals and plant life, and human settlement. Tress actually favour a warmer environment that is rich in CO2, so if climate change ends human civilisation trees will repopulate the earth in the most favourable regions. Few species stand the test of time including the the ancestors of humans, so it's unlikely that humans as we exist now will do so in the far future.
@FilthyDankWasteman Its more to do with how we behave, especially in large groups, our rich, and their totalitarian systems which amount to global communism and eco terrorism; leaving us with no alternatives but to work for their money.
If a tree falls in the forest, no one hears, but everyone will feel it.
I think it's important for nations, not World.
Nepal government walking same conditions.
" We are the people"
" save trees, save Life."
Population of Nepal 30 million, Brazil 212 million. Brazil area 3.2 million, Nepal less than 60K, NO COMPARRISON!
@@nuqwestr he is not comparing population or Land area. He is just comparing the situation.. Moreover nepal have lots of greeneries and many of the mighty rivers of the world has started its journey from the Nepalese part of himalayas. Isn't that similar to Brazil?
@N.M.Tikiri Banda and waiting for the next mass extinction which already have started
Yes, you are right, everything starts from ourselves.
In my lifetime the world population
went from 3 billion to 8 billion people. Cutting down trees is not the issue.
Yeah. TOO MANY PEOPLE MAKING BABIES!!!
We haven't reach 8 bilions yet
World overpopulation is very concerning. If anyone believes that the world elites are not trying to develop a control plan are completely fooling themselves. I think if it isn't reduced by all out war, it will be done by bioweapon. Nobody will accept a "Logan's run" scenario and world leaders aren't smart enough to limit children. I personally know one family with 8 kids and have seen stories of much larger families!
@@Kanal7Indonesia
GERMANY 83.000.000
GERMANY 83.000.000
Easy, stop buying Brasilian meat!
Stop eating meat altogether! Soy is used for almost every form of animal feed! Plus the extreme demand of freshwater and ground when producing meat! And the waste of nutrients! And Zoonoses, immune pathogens and and and..
I am pretty sure that wood is bought by big corporations.
@FilthyDankWasteman McDonalds is convenience food. In this day and age all one sees is big chains dominating the food market.
no
Ora, veja só se não é o PASPALHO que faz propaganda contra o Brasil. Vá tomar conta do seu país, tugalóide.
Basically, what do serial killers think about their victims?
I would say food and survival would be a better comparison, these people have nothing.
Ask Hillary
@@unvaccinatedAndPureBlood damn right
@@Man-cv5ws These people literally have no other choice, for them it's either eat and provide for your family or starve. People getting angry at them is just dumb. You have never been in situations like that ever nor will you ever be, but you would do the same too if you were. It's a matter if survival for them.
We should be focusing on the corporations and the 1st world countries that are providing the demand. Could we create other jobs for these people. Work with the Brazilian government to do so? Conserve part of it? Something along those lines.
@@HassanAli-rb5hq um we have every right to get pissed.
1 they live in 1 of the few biggest rain forest out there and there full and I mean full of edible fruit trees.
2 illegal logging isn't good endangered plants co2 living animals and food goes away when they do.
3 anyone telling you illegal logging is good sorce of money its not 1 permitted trees only 2 he needs a permit to log and sell.
4 did you not see them burning the forest they burned trees that can and would have provided for wild life for 200 and definitely more years.
5 its almost like desert never existed on earth like oh no tropical fruit trees corn rice like really people.
6 mesquite baobab Crucifixion Thorne and cactus fruits are all desert trees that have edible fruits well except the cactus its a yucca.
7 I have family that have bought property in a forest to farm 40% of that forest had edible trees in it they only logged the none edible trees and only far enough so the fruit trees can get bigger and they can climb them easily without a different tree picking him in the ass.
8 its been In.the family for 100 years now and it still looks like a forest but with small pathes for a truck so fruit can be tossed in the bed.
Did anyone else notice how great the reference to Don Quixote was .
"It feels like you are Don Quixote battling against windmills."
Where Don Quixote fights for the Amazon. However, the windmill is not aware of the fight but is present and unintentionally offers resistance to Don Quixote as it is moved by the wind (a higher force behind everything).
They don't care about deforestation as long as they make a living. It's dumb of the BBC to put this on people who are working for survival.
Coming from a developed country- the BBC should be asking how investors, funds, and corps look at deforestation along with the profit it gives them-
because people wouldn't be clearing the Amazon if it didn't make profit.
Exactly. Guilt tripping us.
@@LEO-xo9cz yeah that guy is probably gonna get in a lot of trouble, the feds can get him now he's admitted on camera. Should have blurred his face.
Everyone already knows how investors, funds and corps sees deforestation. They look at it as a disposable resource to be exploited to extinction before their competitors can get at it and do the same. Just as they look at everything else in the world, including people. As a corporate mouthpiece, of course the BBC will broadcast a dumb corporate narrative.
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Maybe BBC tried gaining first hand insight from the working people rather than document template speaking politicians with everyday agenda.
It's ironic how greedy people hurt them selfs by there own greed, Perhaps maybe it's a blessing in the disguise.
you are not poor af and have to survive
Wrong Amazon burning....
the big deal is that a very small part of everything that is taken from the forest stays in Brazil. Most things go to rich countries that criticize people who depend on it for a living but don't they act against the big companies of their own countries that have a part in the destruction of Amazon rainforest. Just to mention, the Norwegian mining company Hydro dumped toxic mining waste into the sources of Amazon rivers. For Norway the richness of the land, for the natives, contaminated water, and I am sure that no one in rich countries marched against this company, because deep down nobody really cares about the truth. ( And just to clarify, I'm not taking out the blame of this shit government that does nothing to protect and preserve the greatest treasure that Brazil has).
Exactly! Rich countries are the most at fault for this, although they like to act like they aren't the ones to blame. Talks about hypocrisy.
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A radical idea would be to pay the people who are cutting down trees more to not cut down trees and instead protect the Amazon.
Yes, but no one dares to have such ideas
That's what I was thinking too, and have them replant from areas they've taken from. Or allow them to take some trees from some areas and replant, so they don't clear fields and fields of trees at a time
I love nature, we must be protecting environment too.
Save Amazon Rain Forest Save Our Planet Earth..
No
We must die after forest
Also the seas, they give us more clean air than the amazon, we need to look after it all
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Correction: The Oceans are the lungs of the earth as they provide 80% of oxygen.
The amazon is a net emitter of carbon as of 2021 due to meat factories.
The oceans provide around 70% of the Earth's Oxygen but forestry/rainforests help clean the air of impurities while also providing a good bit of oxygen themselves!
Cannot blame the Farmers, loggers solely for this. Responsibility lies mostly on the local officials and the consumers
We need food to live, we need money to buy something, how can we protect environment?
What is the number of pieces of furniture that are produced every day? What is the number of houses that are built of wood? What is the number of paper and all paper products? How many of these trees go to the needs of the developed world? Just thinking about how many consumers and what kind of waste of wood there is in England alone, I can imagine the quantity in all of Europe. And what is it all over the world? The hypocrisy of forest protection is just propaganda. People will continue to use wood indiscriminately and irresponsibly because of millions of years of habits. I am skeptical about forest conservation worldwide! Rich countries protect their forests but import wood from poor countries!
How can it be the lungs when 70% of our oxygen comes from the ocean?
It doesn't
Where is the chloroform in the water to make oxygen water is only made out of H2O
It makes me literally sick to my stomach.
Lisbet Soda I just hope you remember this feeling before entering a butcher's or McDonald's the next time..!
Billionaires can purchase swathes of the Amazon for conservation trusts, fund environmental activities n sustainable business activities for a tiny bit of their wealth.
Be a billionaire then
Problem is we live in a world where a dead tree is worth more than a life tree,
And a dead whale is worth more than a life one.
We are finished
What was the impact of the deforestation of the native european forests?
obviously the impact was a lot smaller, just compare the size of Germany or France to Brazil..
Overpopulation, more people less trees
Simple math
All those plant and animal species gone forever
They’ve been stripping this for 70 years! But apparently the loggers are invisible and nothing could be done to stop them…..
The far right/right wing/oil apologists: I want every saw we have to tear through the Amazon rainforest right now
oh, that amazon.
Lol
Sting's probably arming up his webbing like "Comando" as we speak
Deforestation to end by 2030. Really.
Now watch the rate of tree removal skyrocket.
Great planning.
Exactly
"Will the wealthy nations of the world insist that their lifestyle must be preserved and therefore enter into competition and conflict with one another, further degrading the rest of the world, robbing the poorer people of the world of their own ability to sustain themselves so that some grand or indulgent lifestyle can be maintained in the wealthy nations?"
"Divided, humanity will fail in the face of the Great Waves of change. But united, humanity can chart a new course."
from The Great Waves of Change by Marshall Vian Summers
Excactly. And we cannot continue blaming the others or the government, or anything, if we want something to actually happen. Everyone has a calling and everyone has an opportunity to play their part in becoming tolerating and creating relationships that make the humanity more united, step by step. Thanks for your quotes!! That book is a must read I guess.
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Thank you! B.
AccountAbility thank you
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You would think all the world leaders would join together to stop the forrests being destroyed that keeps the world alive . Instead of arguing over money and scraps and power.
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Developed countries have highest CO2 Per person ask them what are they trying to reduce it ,not to people who's survival depend on forests
And much of their resources are exported to rich first world nations. So who's at fault actually?
Criminal syndicates offshore Banks. Are half the problem
Yes this is a tragedy what happens in the Amazon, but where is the video on how europeans destroy their environment? And besides not having our climate infractions been portrayed during COP26. Where do you think that beef and wood is been exported to? Developed nations perhaps?
I see videos of EVERY nation destroying their environments. Don't be a b*tch
why dont you concentrate on your own country instead of pointing fingers
Leaders from around the world should come together and save Amazon.
That would require chucking Bolsonaro out of power which is what should happen!
Save forest save earth
If only the people could earn money by helping reforestation instead of cutting everything down
please save amazon .. it is our lungs. without it world cant be survive
Não. A Amazônia é do brasil cuide do seu país
Saving this planet is everybody's responsibility. For farmers their percentage can be low, since they are the producers on the other hand other people need to create and cultivate forest.
It's possible people can create forest.
Forest in parappa kerala
Amazon was created by humans
If this is distroying the nature you have also visit to petroleum and coal mining fields. these people doing this for their survival and timber has that much economic value to sustain their life.
Well it's our job as society and job of government to give alternative to people who rely on wood cutting or environmentally harmful jobs
Is that a joke? Here in Brazil, has more than 13 million's of jobless, how the government will give them better opportunities?
Sad future ,no beautiful birds or tigers only ugly humans walking around
You're everywhere !!
When will people learn 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️I don’t care if it’s survival it’s not even living
just plant hemp plants jeez
Lol
Let's get Amazon, the company to pay people wages to protect the Amazon Jungle! It would be a win-win marketing campaign to save the world.
lets see what oil executives think about the pollution they cause
Trees are renewable, the rain forest barely absorbs any of the world's carbon emissions since it's nowhere near the majority of them, and the overwhelming majority of the oxygen in the world is made by phytoplankton in the ocean. Does it suck to push wildlife and people out of where they've lived for their whole lives? Yes, which is why we should definitely have some nature preserves that remain untouched. But as long as people want timber, they're going to take it from places where there is ample timber. A few generations later, the first plots cut down will be indistinguishable from what came before it and the process will start again. Saving the trees is a battle, not the war, and it's a battle that can be put on the back burner because again, trees are renewable.
No ifs, no buts, no maybes. Those caught logging illegally (or poaching) should be shot on sight! As should those knowingly buying the timber.
^It's like Lysenkoism and ISIS got married and had a baby...
I agree, but if the government turns a blind eye it's upto the rich to invest in the protection and security of these people and lands. Too many rich people sitting on pots and pots of money asking us little guys to help out and donate. The rich have a lot to answer for
There are too many people on this planet. We kcull animals for our own good so why not cull humans. Start with the rich and divide up their money to give to the poorest
@FilthyDankWasteman Hey, peanut brain. Dead people don't cut down trees or buy illegal timber.
Acho que o policia disse o real problema dos pequenos. Arranjar maneira das pessoas sobreviverem sem terem que recorrer ao corte das árvores.
🇧🇷➡Brazilian America
To see that tree mercilessly cut down around the first minute, broke my heart. But listening to the man who said he does it for his own survival, made me think. It all comes down to our societies, and if Brazil economic situation leads its people to be so hopeless, we then deserve the climate catastrophe ahead of us.
The sad irony of humanity
Even footballers run away from their own country.. just came back to represent, that's it. Don't even talk about saving trees.
Brazil will be despised for centuries.
@HunterBidensCrackPipe I am antithetical to virtue signalling. I'm simply stating a fact. I don't think it paints me in a good light.
Why not deforestation?
Rich and developed became rich by deforestation.
Now it's time for poor country to become rich.
Make them rich and developed to stop.
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Wow, i hope you guys don't get rich.
Well said
Solution: Worldwide boycott of food from Brazil! Boycott to beef, grains, and other crops from deforestation areas!
So there's Bolsonaro and also the ignorance of the peasants. We are all doomed.
@FilthyDankWasteman Fair enough. A vicious cycle.
Also look at what nice Canadians have done to their forest
those people really have no knowledge and don’t realize the consequences of their actions 😢
Totally agree, it's about money, rich and poor. People should only be allowed to have so much money and donate the rest.
The power is in the consumer. We should all stop buying polluting and harmful products.
Don’t they realise how long a take to grow then they come along with stupid chain and cut it in a in instance ban chain saws
How are you people not tired of this? Stop cutting the forest. If the forest wasn't there then you would find another way to get an income. This cannot be your excuse.
Hahaha. We Brazilians will just continue deforestating the Amazon. If it makes them feel better, other countries can impose economic sanctions and embargoes, but those things won't work, I assure you.
It's easy for you to say that from your couch, you've never been hungry and you don't know the despair of feeling impotent
this makes me think of that south park episode with jennifer aniston
BBC!? Cut the stupid music!
Quality report otherwise!
You just described the tragedy of the commons, there is a reason farmers re plans crops, because they legally owns the land and can profit off of maintaining it. If we did the same for forrests it would be the same.
Survival on cutting trees?... And what about needing Oxygen... did anyone whatch the Lorax?
Deforestation is simple cutting making furnishing
Worse part is new trees are not plant
Of new trees are plant no pain only gain👍🏽plant trees
I think #UN should be take amazon rain forest from which country have this area ,,, amazone will be free and #protected !!!🤟🤟🤟
And what would happen to the 25 million Brazilians who live there?
as long as corruption exists, poverty and related illegal activities will not cease.
Why do Brazilians deeply hate Amazon forest and keep destroying it all to go towards the absolute - zero - forest country ?
because we need to survive. 🙄
Cara isso é mentira nenhum brasileiro odeia a Amazônia só odiamos vocês se meterem no nosso pais
Vai cuidar da sua vida
Both sides of the story?
From the BBC??!
While Brazilian Florest has been destroyed to feed Rich Nations with meat, starvation become a reality once again in Brazil because of Bolsonaro’s barbaric economical politics. Food are very expensive now, and many of the poorest Brazilians are eating bones or carcasses, because they cannot buy meat.
You really would have to live here work here depend on what you sow here to get the fullest understanding of what this forest means to centuries old habits..
Sad
We cut down Our trees and developed our land, allow then to continue doing the same to theirs
Remember Afghanistan 🇦🇫please.
Why?
Ahh, the vast rainforests of Afganistan. Oh, wait...
@@mielerodriguez5678 Because more people are being killed there.
@@VanhA-db3kzIt is important to blame the US for its war crimes
I am agaisnt deforestation, but just a thought:
If most of the countries around the world consider the Amazon Forrest the lungs of the earth, isn't it just fair for the country to get something in return? At the end of the day, everybody is benefiting from it right? Just like NATO where counties chip in together as they all benefit from its purpose, then why will this be any different. It is difficult to maintain and police such a vast forest. At the end of the day, the main aim of each government is to find ways to feed its people. I mean Brazil is not a rich country.
We always talk about climate change, but the drastic measure that we want to implement if we do, the one that will suffer and will make the most sacrifice are the emerging countries, and the poor ones. Rich and first world countries need to stop being hypothetical about this issue and do more, sacrifice more. In the first place, during the time when they were just in their industrial stage, they already did too much damage and they already benefitted too much from it. Why would other poor countries sacrifice the most.
I can not understand why there is no war against these ilegal troups. It seems that would be the only way to stop this. If any NGO would ask me for money to buy sniper rifles I would support them.
@FilthyDankWasteman It sounds like if someone burns your house or your fields you just watch and keep on watching while this Guy does the same with your neighbor. I call that self defence.
How did they arrive at this ridiculous event ,,oh ! That’s it ,by private planes.
You expect them to walk take your flat earth type argument elsewhere gobshite
Sweetheart please private planes haven't been around long enough it's more generations of kicking the can further down the road and always leaving it to the next-generation to clean up the previous generations mess
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The world should sanction Brazil to death if they continue chopping this forest down. It may be in their territory, but it’s a natural asset that belongs to the entire world. It must be protected.
So the sollution is to let Brazilians live in misery and starve until we accept being subjugated to UN? Thats the most one of the most dishumane things a country could do to another. But it doesnt surprise me that u suggested this, considering that the USA sanctioned Venezuela and Cuba, destroying their economy and making millions starve to death.
Não a Amazônia e do brasil pode mandar sanções seus vermes mais se tentarem entrar aqui vão morrer cuide do pais de vocês seus verme
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Greed of the world. Cause the Amazon problem. Stop blame each other. Face up to the problem.
Countries outside Brazil need to sanction deforestation- but also start reforesting if they are serious. We need to plant more trees as a form of citizen action wherever we live.
It’s still wrt
These people are still going about providing for thier families the wrong way
The BBC said there would be no more Rainforest in the Amazon by the year 2000. That was 21 years ago.
You couldn't have chosen a much worse song
Mr. Beast should come here
The ones don’t care trying to compromise all of us
The Amazon forest locates in Brazil but belongs to the earth. The whole of humankind must protect the Amazon forest, not only Brazilians solely. The forest occupies a large piece of Brazil's territory and the Brazilians have to fight with the forest for the land. That's the conflict between the Brazilian and the Amazon forest, which is also the key to solving the refractory problem of deforestation. As far as I'm concerned, on the one hand, other nations should implement or increase tariffs on beef and timber in Brazil to discourage the activity of farming and logging in the forest area. On the other hand, people outside of Brazil should compensate Brazilians for their sacrifice of forest protection.
Não se meta na Amazônia ela é só nossa ok
What is the chance of disinformation with this video with the view of the Brazilian guy? Why ? 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
we live here
I wish they keep cutting trees down
United States makes stealing wealth from countries legal! According to an episode of the giant Brazilian emerald, the Brazilian court asked for repatriation. Now goes the Amazon gold to make a great bead!
Is this hood or bad news
Until you start executing the people cutting these trees down, this will keep happening.
Brazil number one in Atlantic Slave Trade, where is the call for climate justice based on that action?