| sethnintendo said: @DonFerrari How's the Amazon rainforest doing under your current administration? |
I hate Bolsonaro and sometimes wishes him to dead, but this is not his fault only. Deforestation in the Amazon began to accelerate due to soy cultivation, China has become a particularly major soy consumer. The primary sector (agriculture, livestock, extractivism) played a key role in Brazil's fast development in the penultimate decade, but it came at a terrible cost. Here you can see numbers until 2018:
The numbers, however, started to decline thanks to a more active ambiental activism and because of the harsh realization of reality: that there is not so much amazon left to deforest (in the states that are the victims of deforest ). If they want to progress further, they will need to go to untouched areas and this is what they are doing now. As you can see, by 2018 the numbers started to grown again. This is in part due to (lack of) overseeing of the state. Bolsonaro even promised to extinguish environment ministry, merging it with agriculture ministry. Here we can see the miserable impact of such stupid claims:
