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Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.
Agent Orange
military herbicide
2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires
Wildfires in Brazil Amazon fire forest
environmental racism
environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy.
Q1771942
American corporation
Chiquita Brands International
thumb|Carlos López Flores, president of Chiquita
1928 Okeechobee hurricane
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1928
Operation Ranch Hand
U.S. military herbicidal warfare operation during the Vietnam War
global waste trade
international trade of waste between countries
Gerboise bleue
French nuclear test, #1
Peruvian Amazon
natural and historic Peruvian region
deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest
overview about the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest
bison hunting
history of hunting of the American bison
Enbridge
Enbridge Inc. is a multinational pipeline and energy company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Enbridge owns and operates pipelines throughout Canada and the United States, transporting crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids, and also generates renewable energy. Enbridge's pipeline system is the longest in North America and the largest oil export pipeline network in the world. Its crude oil system consists of 28,661 kilometres (17,809 miles) of pipelines. Its 38,300 kilometre (23,800 mile) natural gas pipeline system connects multiple Canadian provinces, several US states, an
Mau Forest
a forest complex in the Rift Valley of Kenya. It is the largest indigenous montane forest in East Africa.
Fortescue Metals Group
iron ore mining company in Western Australia
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta
extractivism
thumb|Example of extractivism: open-pit mining in Russia thumb|Example of European extractivism: a quarry in the Apuan Alps, [[Italy. No Cav is an anti-extractivism movement fighting against this activity.]] Extractivism is the removal of natural resources particularly for export with minimal processing. This economic model is common throughout the Global South and the Arctic region, but also happens in some sacrifice zones in the Global North in European extractivism. The concept was coined in Portuguese as "extractivismo" in 1996 to describe the for-profit exploitation of forest resources in
Canopus
French nuclear test, #30
toxic colonialism
practice of exporting hazardous waste from developed countries to underdeveloped ones for disposal
pollution haven hypothesis
deforestation in Brazil
conversion of forest to non-forest for human use in Brazil
British nuclear tests at Maralinga
Atomic weapons tests in Australia, 1956-1963
Rainbow Herbicides
Herbicides used by United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll
67 nuclear weapons tests, with 23 detonations at seven sites, by the USA, 1946—1958
environmental issues in the Niger Delta
Climate change and indigenous persons
Yanomami humanitarian crisis
ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami territory in Brazil
phosphate mining in Nauru
overview of phosphate mining in Banaba and Nauru
Panguna mine
Copper mine in Papua New Guinea (Bougainville Island)
human rights in Spain
overview of the observance of human rights in Spain
genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil
genocide of Brazilian indigenous peoples following the Portuguese colonization
Lago Agrio oil field
Oilfield
fenceline community
community bordering harmful industry or effects