We aren't destroying it or even increasing deforestation, it has been down by -0,41% this year, there has been an increase in the last few years but it's still a far cry from what it used to be in the 2000's.
Germany uses 50% of its land for agriculture, Brazil uses 7%.
8000 years ago the area that is Brazil today used to contain 10% of the world's forests, it now corresponds to 28,3%.
We deforest little and are poor, europeans deforested until they became rich extracting resources and claiming land for agriculture.
More than 3/4 of the world's forests are gone, why?
An Embrapa study shows that despite the deforestation in the last 30 years, Brasil is one of the countries that most preserves its forests. Of the 100% original cover, Brazil today has 69,4%, Africa has 7,8%, Asia has 5,6%, Central America has 9,7% and Europe - the worst case in the world - only 0,3%. 99,7% of Europe's forests have been replaced by cities, cultivation and commercial plantations.
Brazil is the biggest authority in the world when it comes to nature preservation and ecological policies, no amount of defamation campaigning will change these facts.
Brazil has the most stringent ecological policies in the world and the Amazon is a clusterfuck of NGOs abusing it for themselves, mental midgets from our previous governments were pressured by foreign farmer lobbies into eroding our sovereignty.
This is what this is really all about, Bolsonaro doesn't want to play by foreign terms anymore which obviously makes them mad, it was never about the nonexistent increase in deforestation.
Translate this, it's a good quick rundown on the matter.
abag.com.br/conteudos/interna/abag-farms-here-forest-there
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