Brazil: The World's Foremost Destroyer of People, Nature, and Climate.

Racism and ongoing genocide:

Brazil is the non-African country with the largest Black population in the world. Yet, during the World Cup, how many Afro-Brazilians were visible in the stadium stands? Almost none. While many Afro-Brazilians are among the players on the field, their absence in the stands was stark. This reflects Brazil's de facto Apartheid, a reality that persists with total impunity.

The plight of Brazil's indigenous peoples is even more dire. Their communities face ongoing extermination efforts aimed at seizing their lands—actions carried out with total impunity and scant media attention. The situation is particularly tragic for the indigenous groups near São Paulo. These Guarani-speaking peoples have been dispossessed of their ancestral lands and confined to isolated ghettos, where living conditions are worse than in the most neglected favelas.

In Brazil, genocide has been an uninterrupted practice since the arrival of the Portuguese, continuing to this day without accountability or awareness from the broader population. If there is one country that lacks the moral ground to criticize others on human rights, it is Brazil. It is no coincidence that Brazil harbored the largest number of Nazi criminals, where they lived with remarkable ease. Brazil is also the country where Stefan Zweig tragically took his life, shortly after arriving, and where Josef Mengele peacefully passed away in his old age.

Environmental and Climate Devastation

The notion that the Amazon rainforest serves or served as the lungs of our planet is an urban legend. In the tropics, where day and night are of equal length, this ecosystem maintained a zero-carbon footprint by converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2) during the day, while at night, it converted O2 back into CO2 at an equal rate.

However, extensive deforestation has disrupted this delicate balance. As a result, the Amazon rainforest has recently transitioned into a net contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere, due to the massive deforestation by Brazil.

Most of the oxygen we breathe originates from the oceans' phytoplankton, which release O2 as a byproduct of photosynthesis and do not reabsorb it from the atmosphere like terrestrial vegetation does.

The loss of the Amazon rainforest represents more than just the loss of a zero-carbon footprint. It is a unique

biotope

that harbors a quickly diminishing variety of ethnicities, plants, and animals.

Deforestation rates in the Amazon remain alarmingly high, with an area of 11,568 km² lost in 2022 alone—roughly equivalent to the size of Jamaica each year. Estimates from the

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

suggest that by 2050, only 50% of the original forest will remain, a development I am relieved not to witness.

Brazil is currently engaged in the largest

ethnocide

and

ecocide

in history, all while operating with total impunity and no accountability.

N.B. Tofu enthusiasts should be aware that a significant portion of tofu is made from soybeans sourced from deforested regions of the Amazon rainforest. Unfortunately, after just two or three harvests of soybeans, the soil becomes depleted and vulnerable to erosion. This results in barren landscapes that are stripped of their vitality, leaving behind a lifeless desert.