How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips review –

 

 

"The complex web of crime and bad law that makes this possible is its own evil ecosystem, an anti-rainforest liquidating the Amazon’s natural riches and converting them into what the Kayapó call “sad leaves” – money. The main scam, as Phillips describes it, works something like this: you select a swathe of the Amazon and illegally log it. Then you set fire to whatever is left, and send in the cows. The cows are important because, under Brazilian property law, productivity and ownership go hand in hand, and cows – by dint of their expansive pasture requirements – are the simplest way to lay claim to vast tracts of land."

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