In Brazil, the goverment has abandoned indigneous tribes to genocide by loggers and ranchers.

"If the protection teams are withdrawn, it will be like before, when many Indians were massacred and died as a result of disease ... If the loggers come here, they will want to contact the uncontacted, they will spread diseases and even kill them." Paulo Marubo

 Paulo Maruborazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of dozens of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive, according to information received by Survival International, which warns: 'The reality is these cuts could sanction genocide.'

So warns the Ecologist.

Information is being leaked to Survival International that all government protections for uncontacted tribes is being withdrawn. This will unleash loggers and ranchers to invade, destroy the indigenous tribal land and murder the people that reside deep in the Amazon.

The proposals are the latest in a long list of actions from the Temer government, which came to power in 2016 after the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in what has been described as an "blatant political coup" that could have catastrophic consequences for indigenous peoples.

Campaigners have suggested that the government's close ties to Brazil's powerful ranching and agribusiness lobbies - which consider indigenous territories to be a barrier to their own expansion - could be part of the reason for the proposals.

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Uncontacted tribes are the most vulnerable peoples on the planet. Whole populations are being wiped out by violence from outsiders who steal their land and resources, and by diseases like flu and measles to which they have no resistance.

Survival's Director Stephen Corry said: "Cuts in government budgets to protect uncontacted tribes are clearly nothing to do with money - the sums involved are tiny. It's a political move from agribusiness which sees uncontacted tribes as a barrier to profit and is targeting rainforest which has been off-limits to development.

The SciCli blogathon is raising multiple survival issues for our species and every other single species on the planet. Though so far, all of the blogathon posts have made it to the recommended list, it appears that only one has stayed on the list for a couple of hours or more. Most of the posts have not lasted that long and that is so wrong considering what is at stake. This concerns me because I fear that open minded progressives on Daily Kos lack the interest to even try to save ourselves. I suppose it comes down to what one defines as outrage. I may or may not get flamed for this, but what have I got to lose. We either survive together or we all go down together.

It’s just a couple of more days before the People’s Climate March. I hope we can focus on the immediate and long term challenges that we face when it comes to global warming and the crimes against humanity that are being unleashed. Silence=Death. We need everybody to focus because our lives depend on it. See you in the streets on Saturday.

Per Counterpunch:

After years of proliferating nuclear weapons and greenhouse gas emissions, the main solutions remain war and “green” technology.   It is simply assumed that people can’t talk together and plan the logical cutbacks that would Immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water loss and save lives.  The big energy and water users are aviation and shipping, the military, mining, inessential manufacturing, industrial agriculture, cement and steel production, the internet.  Saving lives requires open borders and debt abolition – not just renewable energy.   There is a magical wish that progressive institutions will someday fix everything without taking into account the critical time frame posed by the Earth’s physical laws.  The bogeyman is economic collapse, even though that economy is destroying the world’s majority population.   Current efforts to address these crises are partial and in disarray.  In Greek tragedy, the chorus bemoans too late what could have been known and simply waits for the deus ex machina.   Our survival depends on mature concern and responsibility for all people.