The violent and lawless erasure of the Amazon is perhaps the world’s greatest environmental crime story. In Brazil, home to about 60 percent of the Amazon, nearly one-fifth has already been destroyed. And virtually no one has been held accountable.
accused environmental offenders not to pay fines issued by state inspectors. Before the rise of a politics of grievance that presented deforesters not as criminals, but as honest workers oppressed by authoritarian environmentalists. And before Pedralino realized that this job, a job for which he felt no personal affinity, was putting his life at risk.He had always considered himself willing to do whatever was necessary to perform his work.
Inspectors Josmario Santos Guimarães, far left, and Ivan de Jesus Pereira de Araújo e Silva write up an environmental fine and land-use embargo in the interior of Acre. He felt embittered. First the government had left him without support out here, he said. Now it wanted to fine him $8,000 for doing what was necessary to survive. That money, he said, would “come out of the mouths of my daughters.”
Cattle roam an area near recent deforestation on the private property of Luiz Ricardo Fernandez Leon. The rancher shook his head and rubbed his eyes. He didn’t deny the destruction, but said he would fight the enforcement. Not with force — with lawyers. He planned to appeal the case. It would almost certainly be years before the matter was settled. If it ever was.
The screen showed the states of Acre and neighboring Rondônia, side by side, each showing a different side of the debate over the future of the Amazon. Two of the last Brazilian states to be incorporated, they once mirrored one another: remote, forested jurisdictions of similar size and economic power.
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