{"id":7918,"date":"2019-08-23T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2019-08-23T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:36:12","slug":"in-bolsonaros-burning-brazilian-amazon-all-our-futures-are-being-consumed-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7918","title":{"rendered":"In Bolsonaro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s burning Brazilian Amazon, all our futures are being consumed | The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Right now, in 2019, we are witnessing the beginning of a new, disastrous chapter. The area of trees being cleared has surged this year. In July, the\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/88a097ee5f574fd0bdf3b7a4e7e2b35f\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">deforestation rate<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was an area the size of Manhattan every day, a Greater London every three weeks. This month,\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-amazon-is-burning-at-a-record-rate-and-parts-were-intentionally-set-alight\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">fires are incinerating the Amazon at a record rate<\/a>, almost certainly part of a scorched-earth strategy to clear territory. Why is this happening now? Because of a change in power.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/23\/amazon-rainforest-fires-deforestation-jair-bolsonaro?CMP=fb_gu&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR02e46eX3BELEPJVrIqG2xiDJ2g-YM3RnP8Kbzh6LMRVoS7WVPjHQc06rU#Echobox=1566546216\">In Bolsonaro\u2019s burning Brazilian Amazon, all our futures are being consumed | The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Right now, in 2019, we are witnessing the beginning of a new, disastrous chapter. The area of trees being cleared has surged this year. In July, the\u00c2\u00a0deforestation rate\u00c2\u00a0was an area the size of Manhattan every day, a Greater London every three weeks. This month,\u00c2\u00a0fires are incinerating the Amazon at a record rate, almost certainly part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}