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Oldfolksboogie t1_j80tgex wrote

Coz f the Amazon, who needs O2, biodiversity, carbon sequestration...

Bolsanaro-approved, he may be gone, but the legacy lives on.

Speaking of, can we jail him now or...?

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Fun-Management-7027 t1_j815w76 wrote

Not trying to protect Bolsonaro from huge problems of his government in Brazil, but sugar cane is not cultivated in areas of the Amazon Forest (northwest), but instead its farms are located on the middle and south of the country. The major products that are produced in deforested areas are soy beans and beef

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thecapent t1_j828u2z wrote

Actually, not even soybeans are produced on Amazonian deforested areas in significant quantities (around 5% of the total yield I think).

Instead, the bulk of soybean production is done on the tropical savanna region of Brazil (the so called "Cerrado").

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtCmnj1XYAAaxyk.jpg

Also, the soil are quite bad in the areas covered by the Amazon forest (kind counter intuitive given the massive forest on top of it, but it is. The soil is too acid for soy and most comercial crops.)

You can see how the map of soybean production yields above correlates with the Cerrado area:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Ecoregion_NT0704.svg/755px-Ecoregion_NT0704.svg.png

The real villains of Amazonian deforestation are:

1 - Wood extraction

2 - Illegal mining (mostly surface gold mining, one of few areas in the world left where gold can be mined manually with low technical knowledge).

3 - Cattle raising, this single one being responsible for 65% of all mapped deforested area.

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Oldfolksboogie t1_j8187o9 wrote

Gotchya, and ty for the more granular breakdown.

Either way, I just know that, like Trump, he's all development, all the time, people and the environment be damned.

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ChurchOfTheHolyGays t1_j82kms5 wrote

Fyi Brazil (slightly larger than contiguous US) is not at all just the Amazon forest.

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