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It’s been 25 years since I first flew over the Amazon at night. I remember wondering what those ragged orange arcs on the ground were. At first I thought they w
by jl6 3y ago
It’s been 25 years since I first flew over the Amazon at night. I remember wondering what those ragged orange arcs on the ground were. At first I thought they were the lights of coastal settlements, but the map showed us hundreds of miles inland.
- mistrial9 3y agoIt has also been 25 years since the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) in the US had their fundraising vodka parties and reliable bumpersticker activism. wtf did they get done? this is miserable
- ejb999 3y agoThey did manage to create a bunch of $200K jobs for the well connected activists.
- smallerfish 3y agoWhy do you single them out in particular? There are lots of advocacy groups. Ultimately it comes down to politics in the Amazon states.
- mistrial9 3y agoactually let us frame it this way -- the RAN got money and also did a few things; ranchers and plantation builders got money, and also cut a lot of forest to do it, even illegally in their own country, because the law enforcement got money, and their political leaders got money and "watched" what is the common theme there? what suffered while all that happened? who had the staying power to be in the news and show up at work the next day, for years, while it all happened? who went crying alone, injured lost and dismayed, and had to change to some other activity while all that happened?