Picture this: a vibrant jungle teeming with life. Monkeys swing through the trees. Colorful birds sing from high branches. On the jungle floor, a critically endangered orangutan carries her baby when… CRACK! One of the rainforest’s great trees collapses with a resounding BANG! More begin to topple around the terrified creature. Greedy corporations are DESTROYING rainforests for profit. Take immediate action!
Giant investment firm BlackRock puts MASSIVE AMOUNTS of MONEY into companies that wreak terror in some of the world’s last great rainforests. These greedy corporations DECIMATE precious habitats to make junk food and cosmetics. We’re losing rainforests fast -- and with each second that passes BlackRock funnels more money to deforestation. Please, Friend, SAVE tropical rainforests from BlackRock-funded destruction by 11:59pm TONIGHT!
Agribusiness is the world’s leading cause of deforestation and the violent land conflicts that come with it -- and BlackRock is financing some of the worst companies out there. These companies turn ecosystems stewarded by local communities into wastelands of stumps, and then into vast industrial palm oil plantations. And to steal the land, they HARASS, INTIMIDATE, CRIMINALIZE, and VIOLENTLY EXPEL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE!
BlackRock wields $10 TRILLION in assets. It could use that influence for good instead of funding human rights abuses and ecosystem collapse. But BlackRock won’t stop funding deforestation without your action. Friend, help us reach our goal of 87 signatures from your city and tell Blackrock: STOP FUNDING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND DEFORESTATION! >>
Standing with you,
Jeff Conant
Senior international forests program manager,
Friends of the Earth
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