Today’s Amazon fire emergency is entirely man-made, like the climate crisis exacerbating it.

What has become an annual nightmare for the forest and its peoples can only be solved by ending fossil fuels, guaranteeing the permanent protection of Indigenous lands, and barring the further expansion of industrial development and organized crime into the rainforest.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro regime fanned the flames, but the expanding destruction of the rainforest will continue each year unless there is a collective effort to stop it.

Animal agriculture, land grabbing, devastation from “legal” and illegal mining, fossil fuel extraction, and industrial development are driving the worst fires in years – and the Amazon can not withstand this assault.