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"Last week, Brazil’s Congress shocked the world by suddenly fast-tracking and
passing PL2903, the Marco Temporal bill. This bill paves the way for the
unprecedented destruction of the Amazon Rainforest by stripping Brazil’s
Indigenous people of their legal rights to the land.
How does it work? If it becomes law, ancestral lands inhabited by Indigenous
people before 1988 will not be recognized as Indigenous territory. This
severely limits the amount of land that is protected by Indigenous stewards,
opening the rest of the Amazon up for accelerated commercial exploitation.
Why does that matter? Apart from being a vicious attack on Indigenous land
rights, this hands the keys to the Amazon over to the mining, logging, and
agribusiness industries. Because the entire world relies on Indigenous
stewardship of the Amazon for a stable climate, this has global repercussions
for everyone.
This makes me sick to my stomach, and I hope it does you, as well. We’ve all
heard a lot about how important the rainforest is and how bad climate change
is. It’s daunting. But this is a very specific action that will have
devastating long-term effects if we don’t stop it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
