Forest clearance at smallest total since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-off

Two-week old news today, but I didn't see it shared here before. I find this tremendous.

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[–] 45 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Some actual good news. I needed that.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Compared to Bolsonaros drive to kill as much of the Biosphere as possible for profit, this is actually great.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Right? The fascists lost the election and the rainforest is healing, win-win.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I am very happy that Lula won, but he is an old man. I do not know a lot about Brazils political landscape, but it doesn't seem that there is someone really popular that would continue his course at the moment. Does anyone know more?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    I think it's fair to say there's no obvious candidate on the right at the moment either, so it's not like this is a bad situation for the left in particular.

    The left in Brazil should absolutely start thinking ahead, but we just came out of the elections - I think it's fair for the rest of us to take a moment and enjoy the victory. :)

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago

    Really the cherry on the top of Lulas victory

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago

    People will never know how fucked we would have been if Brazil went fascist.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    "Sure, chopping down rainforest is always enticing, but there's no infrastructure and power generation capacity for the data centers..."

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