'Chaos, chaos, chaos': a journey through Bolsonaro's Amazon inferno
by Tom Phillips in Palmeiras, Rondônia state with ph from Environment | The Guardian on (#4PXNB)
A 2,000km road and river odyssey in Brazil reveals consensus from all sides: Bolsonaro has ushered in a new age of wrecking
From afar, it resembles a tornado: an immense grey column shooting thousands of feet upwards from the forest canopy into the Amazonian skies.
Up close it is an inferno: a raging conflagration obliterating yet another stretch of the world's greatest rainforest as a herd of Nelore cattle looks on in bewilderment.
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