#amazondeforestation — Public Fediverse posts

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

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"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

What #amazondeforestation, @unitednations & #cleanwater has to do with whether your business will survive. No, really. We review #SustainableExellence: http://the-agency-review.com/sustainable-excellence @AronCramer @ZacharyKarabell @BSRnews #sustainability #business #climatechange @CrownPublishing

World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/worlds-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-in-destruction-of-the-amazon #WorldBanks #banks #deforestation #AmazonRainforest #AmazonDeforestation #IllegalDeforestation #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

Please stop consuming Brazilian beef.
#ClimateCrisis #amazondeforestation #BeefKillsTrees

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand

Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/05/stop-burning-trees-scientists-world-leaders-cop15-age-of-extinction-aoe #news #AmazonDeforestation #Brazil #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #deforestation #COP15