Meet the Ranchers Who Claim the Brazilian Amazon is Theirs to Burn | The Dispatch
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- Welcome to the lawless heart of the Brazilian Amazon. Here, cattle ranchers and loggers - emboldened by President Jair Bolsonaro - are clearing huge swaths of rainforest every minute. All in the name of progress.
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Step 1: Burn down miles of jungle "for progress"
Step 2: Wait for it to rain
Step 3: Watch as 3,000 people die in floods and landslides
Step 4: Complain about "acts of God".
Ha ha that's California
Step 4 adjustment: complaining about global communist take over.
This needs a suprised pikachu meme
I don't get the correlation.
@@TheChickenRiceBowl the rainforest helps prevent flooding and landslide in several ways like keeping the soil from becoming lose and helping absorb floodwater (dont remember the exact details). When you clear them it significantly increases the likelihood of those two things increasing. Most of these floods occur in areas where people aren't well educated about how their actions contribute to these ecological disasters and so they blame "God" and the cycle restarts.
I am Brazilian and this is a shameful horrible situation
É do Brasil mais não mora nas regiões onde estão falando tanta bobagem. Zé ruela. Não fala o que vc não sabe. 🖕😠
Brazil has stark inequality. The ranchers know that their opportunity to make money and provide economic security for themselves can fluctuate. Unless you provide them with another source of income, they will do what they can to provide for themselves. End of the day, if the present is in peril, the future is absent.
I agree j.a. when I first heard about this, I was in shock. I have heard so very much about the Amazon rainforest that I have come to love the Amazon
Bolsonaro is a militia member who was elected to the presidential office. FOR REAL. This is not a metaphor. He is really a criminal militia member.
People who are burning the Forest arent poor little Farmers. We are talking about millionaires that have huge, country sizes, farms. 98% of Brazilian cattle raising proprieties are huge, belonging to millionaires. Dont get fooled. The problem isnt the little family Farmer at all. This isnt about providing for your family, its pure profit.
Get ready to start calling it the Amazon Desert
Just shut up
@@Bob-bs5ml Yeah cause I should shut up about a whole entire forest being turned to ashes. Hey, if your family is ever murdered, let's not care. It would be best if we shut up, wouldn't it?
Bob no you shut up
We will all choke to death 1st. We can't live OR breathe without the rainforest.
IF there's EVER been a reason for foreign government to step in and spend thousands and millions of taxpayer dollars on sticking our noses where they don't belong....IT'S HERE & NOW 😠
@@thehungriestcannibal Bob keeps going through the threads just showing up to tell people to shut up 😏
I think he really cares less about the world's quality of air & life because CLEARLY...his pockets are so much more important than our lives OR the people who actually live IN that jungle.
How dare we be so niave as to not know that it's okay if his grandkids die a slow, painful death, as long as it makes him more rich. What were we thinking. Bob.... your "shut up" comments just opened up a whole new light. 🙄
The veil has been lifted & now we all see. How did Brazil EVER live without Bob & his genius statements??? (Sigh)
This is what Vice News used to be like at it's height. You guys have really stepped it up.
*Don't be so easily fooled **#greaterisraelproject** **#balfourdeclaration** **#Nakba** **#USSLiberty** **#RachelCorrie**.. **#FreePalestine* 💘
Agreed
They're gonna step down again not for long
We are looking at faces who want to end the world.
Plant fruit trees in your yard
I like how everyone complains about how Brazil is on fire but wont help them
@@soppingwetburgers6493 30 dudes were killed due to conflict of interest and bolsonaro wont approve international aid.
@@soppingwetburgers6493 You can start helping by stop eating burgers. This is all for cattle raising
@adi yaf And the guy who encourages the burning of the forest is latino what is your point? Also white European countries like Germany have been paying Brazil to stop deforestation so stop it woth the white people bad agenda.
People's ignorance is destroying the planet!
It's not just ignorance: it's willfully blinding yourself.
As the quote goes "You can't awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep".
And selfishness
Everyone here including you is not talking about the real issue, beef and dairy, quit supporting it! Brazil is not the only land suffering at the hands of beef!
Ricardo Guilherme ‘literally’ destroying it
Well, the earth will recover, but not mankind as its better.
Yeah sure the rainforest is theirs lets forget about the animals and tribes that live there
Exactly 😑🤦🏽♂️
B then move out of the city and take the phone your on back to the store in a city
@@user-be1jx7ty7n yes because the city and rats are much more environmentally beneficial to the planet than rainforests, the 2500 species of animals and 400 tribes living in the amazon. great analogy 👍
@@user-be1jx7ty7n Did you really just equate indigenous peoples to rats?
Not to mentain all the indigenous species of trees and animals
Sadly, here in Brazil a lot of people with a very outdated mindset still believe that turning forests into pasture will make our economy grow.
This includes our President, who doesn't believe in global warming and wants to reduce the areas of environmental protection, encouraging a rampant exploration.
Old people are going to destroy the world because their old and dying.
you're a fake guy
The president is a corrupt pathological psychopath who needs to be ARRESTED for crimes against humanity. He has no empathy, truth or sense of decency. He has power over very ignorant, brainwashed people. Dangerous combination.. We will all pay for this.
@@devonnemarcove5104 taste it!
Can you take this up with the World Bank Group? Or the World Economic Forums, through your reporting? People there may be able to help with a solution to protect the rights of both the people and the land, in the name of humanity. I simply do not have an answer yet know if the question were asked the answer will come, as well. I pray for all concerned including us on the sidelines, watching.
Ignorant people in charge is a deadly thing.
Oh no. Do not be fooled. They are very smart and know exactly what they are doing. If it was stupidity we are dealing with then it would have been easy for the populace to deal with them. It is far more evil and very very dark. Only God can do anything. The current human condition has allowed these freaks to take power. As a specie we are at an all time low in our history. May our good Lord have mercy on us.
LME wise words my friend
@@lme9743 111👁👑EL
Bolsonaro
What's ignorant is people still buying beef and dairy.
Very sad, we as humans are seriously gonna regret what we’ve done to this planet.
Kelly Lestig Its only one guy doing all of this Just because he is there “leader”
adi yaf are you going to write that on every comment?
White people would regret it
Someone needs to take out Brazil’s President
It'll grow back.
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The Amazon burns every year during dry season. This year is an average year. In 2008 we had almost the double amount of fires, and nobody talked about that. You are only talking now because of political bias, you are against Bolsonaro!
Thank you for covering this story. I understand that, from your interviews, the sentiment from ranchers and loggers is that these cleared lands are necessary for economic growth and their livelihoods. Do you know if this view is generally shared by other Brazilians who aren't directly involved in these industries?
@@Diana-eo1cf Good question. A survey conducted by Datafolha in September indicated that 75% of Brazilians think international interest in the Amazon rainforest is valid and 51% think that President Jair Bolsonaro's management of the problems is bad (or very bad). www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/09/majority-of-brazilians-think-international-concern-about-the-amazon-is-legitimate.shtml
@@brentmcdonald1483
The Amazon is Brazilian. Deal with that!
The same thing is happening here in Indonesia
Exactly; but why dont show it to the world?? It's simple: they just want the Amazon. They wanba steal it of Brazil. This video is an imperialist propaganda.
Why dont they*
@@renatoantunes4988 because of the scale and the importance of the Amazon. Not only is a biodiverse forest, it also acts like a filter---> trees live on carbon dioxide which they change into oxygen for us to breath and it holds water and keeps land together thanks to roots (so if we chop it down and remove it we have landslides when heavy rain hits). So we cannot live without the Amazon sinds it is the biggest forest on earth. No forest means desert and inhospitable land. There are other ways to make money without chopping the Amazon down, for example: carbon taxing, eco tourism.
@@apeman9238 you are wrong,they want to steal our resources
@@renatoantunes4988 Você é índio? Então você é um colono também
As a Brazilian, this breaks my heart...
vc acredita nessas coisas?? pq que na epoca do lula, tinha mais queimadas do que hoje, mas a globo e a midia n falavam mal dele e o culpavam? agr se o bolsonaro peidar, ai os cara já metem fogo nele
jogada de marketing, n acredite na midia.
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@@quenomeeuboto4812 mano fds o lula que raiva, o governo agora é outro, agora o povo sabe cobrar. Não é pq o governo anterior foi um lixo que não podemos criticar as ações desse. Muito pelo contrário temos que cobrar bastante para que ações do passado não se repitam mais.
@@jalexsilva8162 sim, cobramos, a raiva que eu tenho é que no governo do lula ninguém sobre essa poha, agora com menos queimadas, a midia fala, era óbvio que isso iria acontecer, ainda mais que o bolsonaro cortou verba publicitaria dessas midias
Seu país tem mais Mais floresta que O BRAZIL ?tenho certeza que não,então quebre seu coração cuidando do SEU PAIS
I keep seeing "mine, mine, mine" everywhere. No one stops to think about anyone else. We're a selfish species that hungers for power and riches. I hope that this repitition of burning over the next hundred years doesn't actually destroy the land, for the sake of Brazil. If it does, I'm sure they'll be quick to blame someone else though, wont they?
In that scenario, they'll keep denying help out of pride and one day start to beg for it. Should the help listen then? I say once you make your bed you must lie in it.
Hopefully it's whatever though and we can keep living our selfish, wasteful lives.
So called politicians are the worst of human species, whenever there's a war going to start or any forest getting burned just throw them inside, The war will end in just minutes them hugging each other
@@mr.sandhu587 Both you and @Shipaii are ignorant individuals who put this kind of behavior as "human nature" and "politic issues", this is the act of greedy people who won't care for the damage they make on behalf of how much money can make, I'm talking about these ranchers and the corrupt/outrageous Brazilian politicians.
Stop pointing out these kinds of things as "Built-in way of thinking", this is not normal and should never be accepted as it.
We want to be Gods ourselves. No being on this earth has such a selfish, stubborn and pretentious nature like we have. Its always hatred fuelled by fear. Lay that trash down and go your way with jesus submit to him and you will find shelter and love.
@@themuffinman737 Sadly he's doesn't exist :(
@@taintedtaylor2586 Our own existence is proof for his existence💯
Once again it’s all about money.These people are unaware
of the environmental impact on the rest of the World.
I wonder if the citizens of Brazil
are aware of this impact and if it is really an accurate portrayal of the situation.
It is not an accurate portayal. The Amazon burns every year during dry season. This year is an avarage year. In 2008 we has almost the double amount of fires, and nobody talked about that. They are only talking now because of political bias, they are against Bolsonaro!
Money is money 🤷♂️
I think that even if those ranchers knew of the environmental costs (and some of them probably do) they wouldn't care. For a lot of them this is about escaping poverty and having a sense of control in a country that is very unequal and corrupt. For many this is a case of survival of the "fittest" regardless of how sustainable this move is. The fact that the outside world is calling for action to be taken on the Amazon threatens many Brazilians who prioritise sovereignity and nationalism over cooperation and internationalism. Additionally profits reaped from farming and ranching is just too addictive for some of these people. Many of them would probably fight to the death to preserve the profits that they are gaining and perform any number of passionate mental backflips to preserve their way of life.
Yes, it is an accurate portrayal of what's going on, and yes, many of us are aware of it. But much like what's happening in many other countries right now, sensitive issues like this one end up captured by disputing narratives due to political radicalization and polarization.
Aniwazoa Many people around the World maintain a priority attuned to the Nationalist state of mind. That is their right. Americans and others have their own issues and cannot impose ourselves on them.
People are completely blind when it comes to property rights around the World.
The only way for all to be objective is to begin public study and education concerning this topic.
Hopefully whatever the truth if will surface.
Peace
As a Brazilian myself, I feel embarrassed about how corrupt and uneducated the Brazilian government is, but as seen here, the government is not the only one to blame. In Brazil we have a saying "jeitinho brasileiro", which translates "the Brazilian way", meaning Brazilians always find a way to be sneaky about life for their own personal gains. Not saying that other cultures don't act the same, but we clearly see here that the Amazon is being destroyed because of the lack of education of the people in that area. This is just so sad!
the land belongs to mother earth the earth will outlive all humans.
@GLA POSTAL SERVICE the only way we would outlive it is killing it
@GLA POSTAL SERVICE whatever gets you off man
@adi yaf Stop whining. If you have nothing to do besides being racist and blaming everything on white people than you clearly need to get a life. Too bad you can't afford one.
Renee Pollet that’s what the dinos thought:(
@Choudhry Ali if we outlive them, we will be doomed
So we’re just going to forget about the black Amazon tribes that live in the jungle and aren’t greedy money consumed pigs.
Goddess Aqua Purposefully burning land for profit is not Capitalism. That is corruption and lacks integrity above all.
"black Amazon tribes..." Never heard of this term before. (I'm from Brazil btw)
Like many blacks in the us, they believe the original Native Americans/American indians were black africans 😂
It's not so much about the tribes, though. Brazil (the entire country, not just the Amazon region) has 800 thousand natives. That's nearly 0.4% of a population of over 200 million people. The Amazon region has 20 million people, mostly in cities founded in the XVI and XVII century. So even if every native lived in the Amazon, that still would be some 4% of people there. Whatever happens, more than 96% of the affected will not be natives, but rather urban populations from every ethnicity. I'm not sure outside media reporting on this have looked up the country's demographics... A quick glance at Wikipedia would do it
They're not black
it's not Beyond Impossible to disincentivise Amazon fire burning
Soturian Miraculously hundreds/thousands of independent unrelated fire spots ignited within the same days, must be the work of Almighty Lots
The Amazon burns every year during dry season. This year is an avarage year. In 2008 we has almost the double amount of fires, and nobody talked about that. They are only talking now because of political bias, they are against Bolsonaro!
@Soturian
Perfect! Thank you for clarifying that!
You would have to make the incentive turn from an economic one to another one. That would be doing the impossible.
@@jimmyfallon2484 no, you could reverse the economic incentive somehow. That would be difficult, but not impossible.
I live in São Paulo in Brasil and on the day of fire the sky was completely black, as a Brazilian, I think that these farmers should be arrested
that is incredible considering that there is no air current that make AM>SP or anything remotely close.
“Becoming the supreme nation of the world”
Step 1: conquer and decimate a great continents resources
Step 2: Through the development and capturing of that land create an armed and healthy population with the worlds biggest military
Step 4: Own up to the world about your mistakes and tell all other people it should be outlawed.
😐
I feel sorry for the wild animals.
No you dont.
Yeah same.... As soon as i saw the snake having no green around it i teard up
...nature needs FIRE !!! .....goggle ...ihate snakes ,,fr devil ...
@@phillunrau9972 get outta here
What a piece of jornalism !
Congrats for the team !
these people need to be arrested
No. You need to stop being brainwashed.
@@soppingwetburgers6493 smoothbrain
We all know people like you would rather live around trash rats crowded of people and well developed building than the natural human way
You are too soft.
And be let out on the same day because how corrupt the criminal system is.
"Putting out fires with a leaf blower" is this a joke?
JacobJustIts looks like Trump was right about raking the forests
No it’s not, Most fires start in the underbrush. To stop it from climbing up into the trees, it’s easy to blow it off with a leaf blower. Could be improved upon tho.
Leaf blower might actually increase the 🔥
You wouldn't drink brazil water, neither would their plants.
@@smaronboruah1921 definitely oxygen feeds the fire
This makes me sick. I can't believe how selfish these people are there. It's really sad. 😔
What to expect? They are Brazilians, horrible nation...
@@alex9920iasi man you are being xenophobic, where are you from ? if you are from usa, so know your country is the most hated by de earth. and you guys, destroyed all of yours florests, and we are selfishs? Amazon stays in Brazil, and is belongs to BRAZIL.
@@quenomeeuboto4812 well, you have no moral values what so ever, you put a piece of paper named money above life itself and you are insensitive seing nature being destroyed. Because people like you I have no more hope and expectation for any future and for this world. Its alright, you win, destroy the forests once you dont mind living in the desert. But all I can expect now is my death and every child that is born now wont live many years until we all go to the grave: a hot deserted Earth without water, food and air to breathe will soon be a reality, because all its important is money.
@@quenomeeuboto4812 The Amazon doesnt belong to a group or another, everything in this world belongs to the humanity. You just said the words of Jair Bolsonaro for whom life itself doesnt matter, only the money. He always puts money above life, because he is an evil criminal without feeling, compassion and humanit. ,
@@alex9920iasi jair bolsonaro is a criminal without having done any crime, how can you people who don't live in Brazil believe the lies that TV tells? I live in the Amazon, and what TV does is an exaggeration, just to bring people who don't know the truth to come to believe,
you all destroyed your forests and say that we Brazilians are selfish or that we are mean and merciless to nature, hypocrisy, if the Amazon was of all humanity, then it would be a piece for each country, but it is not, because it is from Brazil, you they destroyed their forests and want to destroy ours too, Americans only know how to think about themselves. and they don’t care about the world, the Amazon is from Brazil, and the ones who have to take care of it are the Brazilians, not you, who destroyed their lands and want to destroy ours too.
🇧🇷➡Língua portuguesa, a melhor língua de comunicação do mundo!
O pai da língua portuguesa, a língua latina é a melhor língua de comunicação do mundo, uma pena que dividiu-se em várias línguas, se não o mundo inteiro falaria Latim.
@@lowrhyan567 você já ouviu latin puro????
E uma língua muito agressiva
This is so sad!..who started it??
it was always burning since the worlds been turning.
Farmers.
Government.
@@holdmybeer tropical forest have no natural (big) fires
@@lucasqwert1
but we didn't start the fires
These Brazilian ranchers are so selfish!
Its not about the people, its about nature
they just want money, welcome to brazil
@AA K kkk, vc acredita no que a tv fala ?? eu moro na amazonia, e sei como é, eles exageram na época de 2003-2008 era muito pior.
@@quenomeeuboto4812 é claro q eles vão exagerar. Isso é uma propaganda imperialista. Eles estão demonizando o Brasil, assim como eles fizeram com o Iraque antes de invadir. Eles estão espalhando mentiras sobre o ecossistema e bla bla bla só para ter a desculpa para invadir o Brasil mais cedo ou mais tarde. O Brasil está a um passo de deixar de existir.
@@renatoantunes4988 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Quando voce der dinheiro e a onde eles morarem voce podera falar isto deles, eles nao estao certos mas precisam sobreviver
It is easy to criticize Brazil after all other countries have destroyed their forests. The fire was not the president's fault, they are natural causes, they happen in various parts of the world. Controlling fire in this region is complicated, an area that is difficult to access. This is not the biggest fire occurred even larger ones (also for natural causes).
These fires are not natural causes, they are the result of man's greed.
excuses, those people are still pigs
Man will soon learn they cannot eat money 🤦🏻♂️😔
They are literally burning the forest to make more food
@@danielrondon1013 how?
Daniel Rondón how? Everything is about profit .
Greed can mess you up, you can not differentiate between right from wrong.
@@fbyi2940 as far as I get it they are doing it to expand the farmlands and the pasture for the cattle, that inturns makes more food.
I am by no means justifying The burning but saying that they are losing food by doing it is kind of silly.
@@danielrondon1013 they can move out...its not like they are that clueless
Vcs norte americano tem que cuidar das suas florestas . Essa é do Brasil 🇧🇷
Brazil is just the rest of the world in Hardcore difficulty.
Based BRAZILIAN FARMER
America is not a country, but a continent.
The best for Brazil? Few people will get rich (already well-established farmers and ranchers), and for the rest not much will change. But I don’t see it changing unless a sound alternative is presented
Grow beef in feedlots rather than on grass....
We, the world, are inconsiderate of them. Brazil is one of the third world country in the world, and one of their source of income is herding. However, we think that just because the Amazon rain forest is the lung of the world that we have the right to tell them what to do to their land. For them, it's their land. You have no right to say this is the world's lung. Think about it. How would you like to have 60% of your land being preserved for the world's benefit? I wouldn't want that and I wouldn't want the Brazilian to go through that. They could use that land to be prosperous, but instead, we come in and tell them they have no right to do so. Why need to rethink how we look at Brazil. Instead of looking to protect the rain forest, what about we protect the people. Create a better source of living for them instead of sucking up all their resources for our own benefits.
I say, let them do what they want to do to their land, and for us, let us do our part in making this world a better place. Like recycling, cleaning up the river, less usage of electricity so less coal will be burnt for our own benefit, stop spending so much water just to flush urine down the drain, go out and plant more trees, go plant trees in the golf courses for goodness sake. Think about it, we are the problem. Stop blaming it on the Brazilians.
best comment on this page, this is correct.
“Is the UN going to compensate me for keeping all these useless acres of land”
- a rancher told me last month.
That’s the truth: if the international community wants the Amazon to be preserved, it must make it profitable.
The locals must have more to gain by preserving than by damaging.
locals or illegal migrants from Europe who colonised.
@@rationalmind3567 They are brazilians. Most north, central or south americans are not native, and even the people from Europe, Africa and Asia are now americans. These locals are brazilians anyway, living here for many generations, even centuries.
That’s what I was thinking. It’s their land. They have the right to choose what to do with it and if they need to clear trees out for cattle to graze so they can make ends meet then we can’t sit here and judge
forest is natures property. you didnt created it so how can it be yours ?
hey, they don't even know where Brazil is, but they want to oppose the laws here 🤔 hypocrites! destroyed their forests, now they want those in Brazil? are so dumb that they don't understand that governments (especially Americans) are doing imperialist propaganda🤦 NGOs are funded to destroy the Amazon! That's why the Brazilian government wants to get them out of the territory!! want internationalization? so try, because we will never give up our territory without at least fighting for it.
About the Amazon: 60% of the Amazon belongs to Brazil, respect that and we won't have any problems.
Você é índio? Então você é um colono também
@@Mayat02 Em parte, sou sim. Tenho descendência portuguesa e indígena. Vivo na parte norte do país, onde fica a Amazônia.
@@Mayat02OTÁRIO. TODOS OS BRASILEIROS NEGROS, PARDOS, MARRONS E ASIÁTICOS SÃO DESCENDENTES DE INDIGENAS E DE 3 NACOES MÍNIMAS DE CADA CONTINENTE DA TERRA.
The view. I feel like im there.
I am Brazillian and I am proud that my country is one of the only ones that still has virgin woodlands.
For now
@@SpoopySquid still having
@@SpoopySquid Still there
@@SpoopySquid Still here 🇧🇷
@@SpoopySquid Still there
Amazon is brazillian
Are you Happy with Amazon fire ??
@@AnkushKumar-cu1tu amazon fire is fakenews
@@eduardocoutochueri9920 well , fake or not
Brazil and whole world needs Amazon 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Those trees provide oxygen for the whole world. So i say the lives of those trees are more than those "farmers"
I’m growing some trees on an open land somewhere around my place, I stole the seeds just to plant them. I hope they’re doing well in the harsh winters of Canada
brazilians would experience a dust bowl that the americans had in the 1930s
More economic downfall
All for greed. Sad
I wouldn't over simplify it too much - there are a lot of people there that do it as their only means to make a living and put food their family's table. That being said, yep a lot of it is driven by financial greed
@@TommoCarroll
Sounds like greed to me, man. I'm sure there's ways of putting food on the table that don't involve burning down acres of protected rainforest.
I understand needing to feed your family but you don't need thousands of acres for that. You only need more acres for more money.
What about the terrorist attack that happened in the Brazilian beaches recently? Tons of petroleum was released in our beaches from 1 or more oil tankers... The lab test showed as a result that the petroleum was Venezuelan. A biologist said that a lot of sea wild life is in danger and some are in extinction already.
Eu moro aqui no estado do Amazonas é aqui não tem fogo.os pais estrangeiros tem que se preocupar com o seu ecocistema e deixar que do Brasil nós cuida
May Allah be with us all.
Thx even tho its not my religion no matter what we say what name god has its the same
@@ygotsvlog3762 you are right. The 3 abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) all have the same God and Allah is Arabic for God.
As much as I disagree it is theirs to burn. Why should we deny their progress. The jungles have been there forever and these people are still poor, something needs to change to allow these people to progress. The US and other countries for decades have thrown smog in the air and polluted the environment for progress.
yes
stop reproducing so much. this is no excuse.
O interesse internacional pela floresta amazônica é comovente. Agora todo mundo virou especialista em Amazonas! O interesse é bem mais profundo.
Hey that guy in the picture looks like Morgan freeman just saying
Samuel Pettit yeah me too I thought the same 🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was him
So devastating. Hopefully we reduce our consumption of beef soon.
my heart aches as i watch this
People don't even understand that when this forest is gone we are aswell watch these people will feel the pain at last
It's hard to listen to those guys and not wish them harm.
This hurts my heart
It's terrible that deforestation is continuing to happen on such a huge scale. It is linked to several problems throughout the world: global warming, flooding, soil erosion, animal extinction and so on. Their is no excuse whatsoever to deny the environmental impact of deforestation. Experts have been saying for years why it is so bad.
Is our demand for wooden products really so high? I certainly don't change my wooden furniture too frequently. Most of the wooden furniture in my home is over 30 years old. It's still in good condition and I have no plans to replace it anytime soon.
That one union lady is delusional. In the U.S. if you burn any public land, especially protected land such as state/national parks, you will be heavily fined and probably sent to prison.
Study history then come back here boy.
As a Brazilian I ask: who's buy Amazonia wood, gold and beef? Amazonia is burning because your starveling
The amazon actually belongs to the indigenous people!!!
Champion it doesn’t belong to anyone it belongs to earth and nothing else
Thugs Bunny N OMEGALUL
Iالمبgvf am ?
Thugs Bunny means ''no'' but with the emote ''OMEGALUL'' as the ''O''
@@theenjeneer2493
It belongs to our race.
Where are the world's billionaire's to save our planet?
Out golfing lmao
@@BossAwesomeSauce haha thank you 😅
Solution: Worldwide boycott of food from Brazil! Boycott to beef, grains, and other crops from deforestation areas!
The rainforests is for the animals farm land is for humans.
QUE BELA CAMPANHA DE DIFAMAÇÃO DO BRAZIL,MANIPULANDO ATE MESMO BRASILEIROA
Well, it's their land so they decide what they do with it
@Sidd A nope, only the owners can.
Rainforests are forests characterized by high and continuous rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between 2.5 and 4.5 metres (98 and 177 in), and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.
The worst of the Amazon fires are in Bolivia, and they’ve been contained and dealt with. Furthermore Brazil is finally putting more effort towards containing and putting out the fires, with the Help of rain.
True, the fires in Brazil are subsiding now thanks to seasonal rain and firefighting efforts.
Environmentalist: Boohoo, forest burning.
Ranchers: We own this forest, we have our papers.
Everyone: Welp, there's nothing we can do about it. They have legal papers. Moving on...
people, plants are cheap and do so much for us, plant trees or lots of native plants they dont need to be watered and cared for, they look beautiful, they benefit the birds, bees native life and help place a better balance for our world. we need to create a healthy world together, instead of plain boring grass yards, plant flowers and plants in there way, and bring nature to you. we can make this place a paradise if we do it together.
Yeah the rainforest’s theirs SO THAT’S 20% OF THE AIR WE BREATHE
@Marcelo Firpo Still. Losing 20% of the oxygen production (not sure of that number is accurate though) is detrimental to the ecosystem. I hope nothing important like bees die out, otherwise, humanity is screwed.
The rich trying their best to get richer
They'll keep supplying as long as there is demand for the meat they sell. It is all the customers buying their products.
Ordem e Progresso🇧🇷🤠👍
Yes...... salve república 🇧🇷
*Comentário em inglês*
Nome do cara: Lucas FF Mine
Looks like a scene from WWI
We Brazilians have been living real nightmares in every section of the public interests. Some of our politicians are awfully irresponsible and evil. Our public systems are all collapsing: cuts of 30% in the federal education sector budget; privatization of several public enterprises, including the Future-se program proposed by MEC to our public universities; the freezing of our budget for public expenses to 2016 parameters (for 20 long years!!!); pension is being tragically "reformed" in an attempt to cast a huge portion of our society into extremely deeper social inequality.
In other words, all the rights we had granted are now being torn down in a shameful game of personal interests, and not the people's will. I just wonder why impeachment is still not being talked about after all of the shocking revelations we have been having from serious independent media outlets.
Now the worst: it's all in the name of God/Jesus, and for the sake of 'the Brazilian traditional family', which is just one more lie out of the piles of nonsense put into practice in our politics.
It's depressingly outrageous! 🙄😒😑😨🤢🤮😤😠
There should be no cuts in education, just relocation of resources to basic schooling. But privatization and social security reform are necessary. There's a 200 billion annual deficit. If this doesn't change, we will belong to bankers.
Seriously? On protected land? What the heck is wrong with people?!
money
@@Lucasmleite2003 Its not bad per se to develop and help ones economy and to a point I understand the farmers. There needs to be restriction though. I do have a problem especially when they deplete the resources from the natives and animals who live there
The Amazon is from Brazil, it's up to us Brazilians to argue, no American or French can argue
Its the Brazilians forest but that doesn't mean you guys get to burn the forest Amazon's are like Bees we need them and the Earth needs them like can you guys not make a forest a desert
@@Annie-wy5mc If it's Brazilians choice, then we will burn every tree in the Amazonian part of Brazil. Period!
A Amazônia deve ser preservada e explorada de forma sustentável.
The last 3 minutes of the video really got me crying 😢
We preserve it for our need, not the world. The local Mayor & the official person appointed by the government, both at power to support the notion.
Fire fighters being attacked by the locals & overlooked by the Government!
30 activists murdered in a year.
The reporter!
Oh my God! so much crime & greed happening in the open, in such a vast country and nobody is able to do anything about it... Kaliyuga 😢
Brazil probably doesn't have to work again. The nations will pay them to keep the rainforest and expect nothing but the air they breath in return.
2:58 the national anthem playing in the background is almost ironic, since he's talking about illegal acts
This is why people in the West at least need to buy quality meat from local producers. Less meat but better quality.
They are right, and you seem to have mixed up your causes pretty badly. That Brazilian beef is excellent quality, and the stuff grown on fresh land might be even better. If you wish to minimise the environmental impact of your meat consumption, whatever its magnitude, I think it is actually the grain used as feed which is the largest factor.
Simply eating pork is effective.
"Higher quality meat" would be more expensive, correct? I suppose that is mainly what you mean, but actually there are many ways to think about the quality of meat. We used to think about it as the amount of cruelty imposed on the animal being eaten.
Petition to not buy Brazilian beef until they stop the burning
Just put tariffs on Brazil beef. Or ban Brazil beef
Money rules the world. You Ain’t stopping anything
This makes me sick. They need to stop
Thank you NYT for sharing! You are so good at making these very "real" and honest videos about issues, and this truly is an issue.
@Soturian I have to agree that I dont quite like the way nyt and wapo choose quippy headlines. But the headline writers usually aren't the same people as the journalists
hi, can i use some parts of this documentary in my youtube video? Thanks.
Days of Fire. Great name, very impactful.
In the late 70's and 80's people were stimulate to populate the north region where Amazon rainforest is. These people who left their lifes in northeast and south regions of Brazil, stimulated by the policy of that time can't be blamed. If the land they've acquired is now a natural reserve, they must be refunded or compensated. Trying to blame the people who lives in the forrest won't be of any help, preservation comes with economic development. You can't simply tell the people who lives there to get out... You have to give stimuli for them to preserve the rainforrest.
That's the argument many ranchers who claim to be original Amazon settlers are making in this video-that the government owes them.
@@brentmcdonald1483the situation is far more complicated, than ranchers trying to expand their pasture land to increase their herd. The past Brazilian governments, in the end of military governments and the redemocratization period stimulated people migration to north and middle-west regions, with promise of cheap land. The initial plan was to open a new agricultural frontier with soy and corn plantations. But after Eco 92 in Rio, many things changed. The Brazilian government committed with G8 countries to enhance preservation, but was already compromised with past migrations policies. The government literally let the farmers and ranchers by their own... Only in after years 2000 the financing policy get better and a new growth in agriculture began
There should be an International agreement to how much land in Amazonas region and which land can be burnt in certain years, to get what all parties want, the environmentalists (both in BR and outside, it's nothing wrong when people from outside have a say since we breath all the same air and a dead Amazon would effect everyone), the people who do these ''land grabs'' and the (current) Brazilian Government who cares about economical effects rather than environment.
An Agreement for example set up by the European Union, USA, Canada (since they mostly care about this) with all the countries who have Amazon rainforest on their land.
If countries would not come to the negotiation table these big 3 could always sanctionize via Economic decisions, which would bring everyone immediately to the table for negotiations. What people as Individuals can do is to consume less meat and even a step further, boycott certain countries products etc.
666 BRLN 999 why
hey, they don't even know where Brazil is, but they want to oppose the laws here 🤔 hypocrites! destroyed their forests, now they want those in Brazil? are so dumb that they don't understand that governments (especially Americans) are doing imperialist propaganda🤦 NGOs are funded to destroy the Amazon! That's why the Brazilian government wants to get them out of the territory!! want internationalization? so try, because we will never give up our territory without at least fighting for it.
@@hytomi9481 i agree the Usa's Gov are imperialists but NGOs funded to destroy the Amazon rainforest to blame or overthrow the current Brazilian Government??
Why and how? That seems like a stretch and is probably Propaganda in itself.
@@LegendNinja41 like it or not, the US and European countries fund NGOs here, but not for the good of the Amazon, but to destroy Brazil's image! they fund separatists here! all the countries of south america hate them! soon we will align ourselves with Russia and China.
@@LegendNinja41 The current Brazilian government is doing everything to protect the Amazon, we cut most of the funds for these parasitic NGOs that do "favors" for countries like the USA, guess what happened? yes, they were against the government! We have evidence that these NGOs set fire to the Amazon! but we didn't take them out because of the sanctions and because of the media bought in my country.
What a disgusting sense of entitlement.
Private property is a government granted monopoly.
These people need to be in prison ASAP!
you know while it is sad whats happening, and it should stop, literally everyone here isn't viewing it from there point of view.
Imagine you being a middle class person being told by some random group you have never meet before, who have gained unimaginable wealth by similar methods as your attempting, telling you that "nope sorry, you cant do this because some other group long after your dead will be effected, plus its not your forest but ours. so just stop.".
This farming method is there whole livelihood and there ticket into the middle class, and without it a lot of them would be bellow the poverty line. Sure they shouldn't be destroying the rain forests, but what else will they do? In addition its kinda argoent that we in the west are becrying a nation for using its own rescorces to better itself and become wealthy, when we did more or less the exact same thing just a hundred years ago.
Just saying, before you go yelling or calling for the deaths of these people, think for a second about what there going through. Its not your rain forests, but theres to do with as they please.
Thanks for covering this disaster 🇧🇷
Pray for Amazon
no trees no oxygen!
What disheartenes me the most isnt the destruction of the Amazon its that people politicizing it. Calling people who wanna protect it new colonialist, etc.
They are new colonizers...
Question, are you guys wanting to stop the natives not the same as those colonialists? Implementing your morals & superiority to them?
My solution is those who really care, try to give the natives money or pay them to maintain the forest... pay them more than they would earn from the burning. Also, if you really care... give up your job & live there.
Poor mindset... One day we will pay for our sins.