It has been growing there for 55 million years. The human race was around 1 million 10,000 years BC. Since the industrial revolution we are now over 8 billion and have wrought irrevocable destruction to the planet.
The Amazon rainforest spreads across nine countries namely Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana, and French Guiana. Some of these countries hold a bigger part of the Amazon forest than others.
The tragedy of the fires in the precious wetlands of the Pantanal, killing rare wildlife, has been so appalling. All caused by an ever warming planet due to deforestation and fossil fuel use.
The insanity of global corporates accelerating their plundering of the Amazon rainforest through aggressive tactics, bribery and sheer criminal activities is now so blatant it is as if these corporates are driving a dagger into our ecosystem’s heart.
Since the early 2000s the engineering firm, Odebrecht S.A, has been busy committing crimes and finally exposed for its criminal behaviour over the past 15 years.
The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Salvador da Bahia and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
After Marcelo Odebrecht served his jail sentence he is now renaming the business:
Now Novonor “is born as the holding company of a business group with 25,000 employees and six companies” working in engineering, construction, urban mobility and roads, oil and gas, real estate, petrochemicals and the naval industry, the statement said.
Who has been bribed by Odebrecht?
of his links to Odebrecht corruption.
Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia committed suicide in April when police went to his home to arrest him on charges related to Odebrecht. Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and three former presidents, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Ollanta Humala and Alejandro Toledo, are all under investigation in connection with the Odebrecht scandal. Humala has been indicted on corruption charges.
Politicians in Guatemala and Colombia have been engulfed, too.
Successive Peruvian Presidents have been investigated for accepting lucrative bribes from Odebrecht, for example, to approve the building of the deforestation causing Oceanic Highway:
The shrinking Amazon has seen indigenous tribes losing their land where they lived as guardians of the forest. Rare plants have been destroyed, many providing important medicines to the pharmaceutical research labs. All the wild animals among their specialised habitats are disregarded as the loggers cut down this ancient forest.
And all this activity is to contribute wealth to those who deny their activities are accelerating climate change catastrophes around the world.
As the oceans become too hot we see catastrophic weather events around the world occurring so fast alerts cannot be sent out in time to protect people from the horrific consequences.
But corporates are blinded by their greed, intent on their plunder. Odebrecht is only one corporate with blood on its hands.
Corporations should be our servants, not our masters.
The vast majority of Americans would find abhorrent a Republican-dominated Supreme Court that comes down repeatedly for corporations against workers, consumers, and the environment, and, that allows unlimited corporate campaign contributions and unbridled corporate power over ordinary voters.
Nader, 3rd Nov 2024
Corruption linked to industry, particularly the construction industry, is nothing new. Here is a 2022 UK article about tight rules and vigilance required to meet the problem head on:
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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