rainforest

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• 9/1/19
  

  Searching for El Dorado: The Colonial Fantasy of the Amazon

  by Ed Simon

  There is a direct ideological thread that runs from the early explorers of the Caribbean and South America and the current environmental catastrophe unfolding in the Brazilian rainforest as fire burns its way across the length of a land which was once called paradise. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/23/19
  

  Environmentalists Have Been Warning About Amazon Fires for Decades.

  The climate change that TIME in the 1980s warned might be possible has already come to pass, and the damage it causes is starkly plain.