City Council Members in New York City and Los Angeles are calling for businesses to cut ties with companies responsible for the Amazon rainforest fires.
Fires burning in the Amazon have been linked to the beef industry; cattle ranchers often set fire to areas of the forest in order to clear land for their herds. There have been 41,000 recorded fire locations so far, according to the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research.
The fires are devastating for indigenous people and wild animals, but they also have a wider impact; Amazonian trees absorb carbon dioxide and are an extremely helpful resource in the fight against the climate crisis. NYC and LA are the two largest cities in the United States. City Council Members from both hope that they can lead by example. They want to inspire the other 35,000 cities in the country to join them and introduce similar resolutions...
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Saving the Amazon is the PR cover for their real agenda:
Leaders also want city residents to consider reducing the number of
animal products they consume. According to the United Nations
Environment Programme, tackling meat consumption is the world’s most urgent environmental problem.
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