South America expert on saving rainforests: “Bolsonaro is a swindler”

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South America expert Thomas Fischermann on the rainforest rescue: “Bolsonaro is a swindler”

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Brazil’s share of the Amazon region is as large as Western Europe in terms of area and therefore an enormously important CO2 store from a global perspective. But President Jair Bolsonaro sees the area primarily as untapped economic potential and has been deforesting it continuously for years. Not only is this a disaster for the global climate, it also means the demise of many indigenous peoples who are displaced as a result. “Bolsonaro is a swindler,” says the South America expert, bestselling author and “Zeit” correspondent Thomas Fischermann. If Bolsonaro realizes that the deforestation of rainforests is illegal somewhere, then he makes it legal there as president. The consequences are devastating, says Fischermann: “The situation in the rainforest is dramatic, the forest has shrunk by 20 percent in the Brazilian territories alone since the 1960s.” This not only removes an enormously important CO2 reservoir, it also disappears habitats, for example those of indigenous peoples. Fischermann visited them and wrote a book together with a shaman: “The shaman’s son. The last wizards in the Amazon are fighting for the magical legacy of their world. ”

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