A new Greenpeace International report, Toxic Skies: How Agribusiness is Choking the Amazon, reveals how fires linked to industrial agriculture are turning the forest’s air toxic during the dry season. The findings are a stark warning that the Amazon’s crisis is not only about trees. It is about the air millions of people breathe, and the health of our shared planet.
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That’s an excellent point. I’m reminded of when Doug Graham made a similar argument that purchasing vegetable oils and grass seeds at the normal retail price subsidises the animal cruelty industry. There are many reasons to say no to these things.