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^^^Here is an article that provides more background on that:

What Lula’s Stunning Victory Means for the Imperiled Amazon Rainforest
by Benji Jones
October 31, 2022

Introduction:
(Vox) Brazil, the largest nation in South America and home of the iconic Amazon rainforest, will have a new leader come January 1: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In the runoff election Sunday, Lula, as he’s widely known, beat incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, earning just over 50 percent of the vote.

It was a historic defeat and a sensational comeback for Lula. After serving two terms as Brazil’s president, between 2003 and 2011, Lula went to jail for corruption, though he was later freed after the Supreme Court overturned his convictions. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, is the first president to lose reelection in the 34 years of the nation’s modern democracy. (He has yet to concede. Bolsonaro administration officials have announced that they are preparing for the transition to a Lula administration - caltrek)

The results also represent a historic moment for the Amazon rainforest.

Under President Bolsonaro, deforestation accelerated, threatening not only wildlife and Indigenous communities but also the global climate. But Lula has promised to give the forest a second chance. “Let’s fight for zero deforestation,” Lula said Sunday night after his victory. “Brazil is ready to resume its leading role in the fight against the climate crisis, protecting all our biomes, especially the Amazon forest.”

Lula often points to his track record to prove he can succeed: During his presidency, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by more than 80 percent, meaning there was less forest loss. An analysis by the climate website Carbon Brief suggests that under Lula’s next administration, annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be down by nearly 90 percent by the end of the decade.
Read more here: https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022 ... ainforest
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I very much recommend reading this about deforestation and the Amazon forest:
https://www.humanprogress.org/the-amazo ... disappear/
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
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Tadasuke wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:29 pm I very much recommend reading this about deforestation and the Amazon forest:
https://www.humanprogress.org/the-amazo ... disappear/
A well-known fossil fuel disinformation site, funded by the Cato Institute. Please keep this propaganda off the forum.
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wjfox wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:32 pm A well-known fossil fuel disinformation site, funded by the Cato Institute. Please keep this propaganda off the forum.
That's only your opinion. It's not a disinformation site. That's only the accusation of people don't know better. It's absolutely not a fossil fuel site. I'm sharing it, because I don't want climate-change alarmism to be unnecessarily propagated. I want good for the world.
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
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Amazon deforestation in Brazil remains near 15-year high
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By FABIANO MAISONNAVE
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed slightly last year, a year after a 15-year high, according to closely watched numbers published Wednesday. The data was released by the National Institute for Space Research.

The agency’s Prodes monitoring system shows the rainforest lost an area roughly the size of Qatar, some 11,600 square kilometers (4,500 square miles) in the 12 months from August 2021 to July 2022.

That is down 11% compared to the previous year, when over 13,000 square kilometers (5,000 square miles) were destroyed.

For more than a decade it looked as though things were getting better for the Brazilian Amazon. Deforestation had declined dramatically and never rose back above 10,000 square kilometers. That was before the presidency of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, beginning in January 2019.



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Brazilian Amazon Deforestation up 150% in Jair Bolsonaro’s Last Month
January 6, 2023

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(AFP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose 150 percent in December from the previous year, according to government figures released Friday, a final bleak report for far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro in his last month in office.

Satellite monitoring detected 218.4 square kilometers (84.3 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest last month, according to the national space agency's DETER surveillance program.

The area -- nearly four times the size of Manhattan -- was up more than 150 percent from the 87.2 square kilometers destroyed in December 2021, according to the agency, INPE.

Bolsonaro, who was replaced on January 1 by leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, triggered an international outcry during his four years in office for a surge of fires and clear-cutting in the Amazon, a key resource in the race to curb climate change.

Under Bolsonaro, an agribusiness ally, average annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose by 75.5 percent from the previous decade.
Read more here: https://www.courthousenews.com/brazili ... st-month/
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Scientists Find Human Activity has Degraded More than a Third of the Remaining Amazon Rainforest
January 26, 2023

Introduction:
(EurekAlert Alert) Main points:
• Carbon emissions from degradation are equivalent to or greater than those from deforestation.
• Degradation does not just affect climate and biodiversity; it also has major socioeconomic impacts
• Projections for 2050 indicate that disturbances such as fire and illegal logging will continue to be among the main sources of carbon emissions from the Amazon

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published on January 27 in the journal Science.

The paper was led by an international team of 35 scientists and researchers, from institutions such as Brazil’s University of Campinas (Unicamp), the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and UK’s Lancaster University. It shows that up to 38% of the remaining Amazon forest area – equivalent to ten times the size of the UK – has been affected by some form of human disturbance, causing carbon emissions equivalent to or greater than those from deforestation.
Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/977394

Edit: Of related interest https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/977341
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