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Health Issues for Greed, Leave the Amazon Alone

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In my  previous post about the Amazon Fires  I wrote about how the fires would affect our health directly. Due to the pollutants being released into the air thus forcing use to inhale this pollutants into our system. As anyone would of guessed it is not good for our bodies and are extremely harmful. City of Brazil, Cao Paolo, blacked by pollutants from the Amazon Rainforst Fire. I posted this image in order to prove to you my concerns of Brazil and neighboring countries. Millions of people are forced to inhale all of that every day. Pollutants are expected to aggravate heart disease and inflammation, nerve disorder and even cancer.  CNN reports  there's been a spike in the number of breathing problems and hospitalizations among children in Brazil. Children are among the first to be affected due to their developing bodies. In May and June about 5 000 children were hospitalized for each month. That's 10 000 children in 2 months of the fire burning. Imagine Jul...

They People Too

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I have a dream. Well, at least I had one. It will stay in the past tense for as long as the current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, remains with his mindset that the deforestation of the Amazon is the key to increasing Brazil's wealth. Though his greed, my dream will never come true. For years I've always said I'd travel in the Amazon settle with one of the tribes and learn their way, in the hope to use their knowledge to create a better society. I dreamed that I'd represent the minority whenever I could. So here I am.. On his first day in office Brazil's current president, Jair Bolsonaro, loosened protective regulations that were placed in 1988. The regulations placed in order to protect the tribes from previous decades of violence and discrimination. The reserved land for the tribes which has been protected makes up 12,5% out of the 60%, which is within Brazil's territory, of the Amazon Rainforest. Map showing how much of the Amazon is Protected and...