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ENVIRONMENTAL BLINDNESS { 30 images } Created 18 Feb 2020

Between 1960 and 1980, when Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship, the Amazon Rainforest was a symbol of backwardness.

Many efforts were made by dictatorial presidents to clear the forest and occupy that vastness during an era called by them as "The Brazilian Miracle".

Our past generations were affected by a kind of environmental blindness. Millions of square miles of the richiest bioma on planet were annihilated to give place for pasture, plantation and mining.

Although the nature conservation is a today's imperative term, and science has reached great production techniques, the habits from our past are still predominant.

With the rampage of the right-wing extremists, the political message has spread the confidence to keep burning and exploring the forest.

Less than a year after the presidential election, oficial data confirm the enourmous increase on deforestation. In 2019 July, the Brazilian Amazon deforestation has increased by 278% when compared to the same period of 2018.

Despite the fact that our contemporary society has found the cure for the environmental blindness, it seems that Brazilians have been blindfolded, and are still walking on a land of darkness.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. Criminal fires burn Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. View from an airplane shows criminal fire burning Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Serra do Cachimbo, Pará state - Amazon Rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 24, 2019. Criminal fires burn Amazon forest inside Biological Reserva of Serra do Cachimbo. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Serra do Cachimbo, Pará state - Amazon Rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 24, 2019. Criminal fires burn Amazon forest inside Biological Reserva of Serra do Cachimbo. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. Criminal fire burning Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. Criminal fires burn Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Serra do Cachimbo - Pará - Brasil - 28/08/2019: Queimada atinge área da Reserva Biológica Nascentes da Serra da Serra do Cachimbo. Foto: Caio Guatelli
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. Criminal fires burn Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. Criminal fires burn Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos municipality, Pará state - Amazon rainforest region, Northern Brazil - August 19, 2019. Trees remains after criminal fires burn Serra do Cachimbo Natural Reserve. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Castelo dos Sonhos - Pará - Brasil -  30/08/2019:  Desmatamento de floresta amazônica no município de Bela Vista do Caracol - PA. Foto: Caio Guatelli
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  • Medicilandia municipality, Pará state, Amazon Rainforest region, northern Brazil: A truck transporting illegally cut trees seen at Transamazonica road. Photo: Caio Guatelli
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  • Senador José Porfírio municipality, Pará state, Amazon Rainforest region, BRAZIL - March 03, 2017: DEFORESTATION: At least six men with a tractor worked in the illegal cutting of trees at Senator José Porfírio municipality. The site is near the region claimed by the Belo Sun Mining Company for gold exploration, close to Xingu River. Photo: Caio Guatelli
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  • Peixoto de Azevedo municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil - Amazon Rainforest region. August 19, 2019:<br />
A Jesus Christ statue and the smoke of a burning forest in the background. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Peixoto de Azevedo municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil - August 19, 2019:<br />
Cattle pasture in Mato Grosso state. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Peixoto de Azevedo municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil - August 19, 2019:<br />
Aerial view of cattle pasture in Mato Grosso state. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Mato Grosso state - Brasil - July 27, 2020:<br />
Aerial view of cattle pasture in Mato Grosso state. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Sinop, Mato Grosso state - Brasil - July 27, 2020:<br />
Aerial view of the development of a residential neighborhood in Sinop, where once was Amazon rainforest. Photo: Caio Guatelli.
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  • Paraupeba, Pará state, Brazil - February 15,  2017: Iron ore mining at Brazil's mining company Vale at Grande Carajás operation site, in middle of Carajas National Forest - Amazon Rainforest region. Photo: Caio Guatelli
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  • CANAÃ DOS CARAJÁS - PA, BRASIL - February 15 of 2017: Part of the Carajas National Forest that surrounds Vale's ire ore mining. Photo: Caio Guatelli
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