ザッキーシャリフさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ザッキーシャリフInstagram)「* PLEASE READ * from my dear friend @shantisundays On 1 August, The Economist ran a leader, ‘Deathwatch for the Amazon: Brazil has the power to save Earth’s greatest forest—or destroy it.’ It stated the Amazon stood on the brink of irreversible change into ‘something closer to a steppe’ - a dry, grassy plain. 💔 A few weeks on and fires rage so fiercely that smoke can be seen from space. On Monday, San Paolo, thousands of miles away, was plunged into darkness at 3pm. The Amazon’s destruction, or survival, is inextricably linked to our own. The stakes could not be higher. ❤️ At 1pm today, members of the Huni Quin (Kaxinawa) tribe will speak, in full dress, about the plight of the indigenous land in the rainforest of Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London. Please stand with them. Stand up for the Amazon. Stand up the survival of life on Earth.✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿 Excerpt from The Economist below. ‘Humankind has long looked to forests for food, fuel, timber and sublime inspiration. Still a livelihood for 1.5bn people, forests maintain local and regional ecosystems and, for the other 6.2bn, provide a—fragile and creaking—buffer against climate change. Now droughts, wildfires and other human-induced changes are compounding the damage from chainsaws. In the tropics, which contain half of the world’s forest biomass, tree-cover loss has accelerated by two-thirds since 2015; if it were a country, the shrinkage would make the tropical rainforest the world’s third-biggest carbon-dioxide emitter, after China and America. Nowhere are the stakes higher than in the Amazon basin; not just because it contains 40% of Earth’s rainforests and harbours 10-15% of the world’s terrestrial species. South America’s natural wonder is perilously close to the tipping-point beyond which its gradual transformation into steppe cannot be reversed, even if people lay down their axes. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is hastening the process - in the name, of ‘development’. The ecological collapse his policies may precipitate must be averted’🌳✊🏽🌎✊🏼💚🌳 #savepachamama #saveamazonia #prayforamazonia #liveforamazonia #indigenousrights #climateactivism #consciouschoices #lovetheear」8月23日 15時48分