Brazil to open 860K acres of protected Amazon rainforest to logging, mining, etc

The article didn't talk about the political context: the current president is facing corruption charges and a threat of impeachment and is buying support from congress by opening the government coffers (or what remains of it) and ceding to various lobbying groups.

Take a commercial flight where you have a chance to look down on the rainforest in Brazil or Peru.<p>You&#x27;ll be absolutely astonished and sickened at how much is already gone.

sadly capitalism seems to be an incredibly effective and efficient way to completely destroy the rainforests.<p>there does not seem to be any solution.

It never made countries richer. Only poorer. In this case, it will make the planet poorer.

What responsibility does a typical reader of HN have?<p>What can a reader do?

While an important issue, the article states that it is still in the proposal phase.

As an average HN reader, I&#x27;m trying to understand the environmental consequences of these actions by the Brazilian government to Brazil and the World. Can someone ELI5?

The forces which threw out Dilma Roussef are behind this over commercialization. Dilma would never have let this happen.

I predict that in the future, brazil will be invaded to stop logging so that those trees can keep making oxygen.<p>I wonder, doesn&#x27;t most oxygen come from those trees? I&#x27;ve read the expression &quot;lung of the planet&quot;. Essentially it seems it&#x27;s a matter of survival.<p>Although increased CO2 concentration might also accelerate the growth of trees, so I don&#x27;t really know.

This is great news!

Wow. A failing state pimps it’s resources. This is terrible.

There will be the usual walk through the park of unusable vectors to solve this.<p>The only thing that could stop this is direct action - meaning, editing organisms to resist humanity. Making trees fireproof, equipping animals with diseases. The only wulf to hold back man, is another man.