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To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest

In: Standing up for a Sustainable World

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  • Maria do Socorro Costa Silva

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In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, the Norwegian firm Norsk Hydro processes aluminium ore, extracted from deforested land, in one of the largest aluminium refineries worldwide. Huge volumes of toxic effluents are discharged in a major tributary of the Amazon River. As a matter of survival, the devastated local community created Cainquiama, a 20,000 members strong organization chaired by Maria do Socorro. Norway as a country has a favorable environmental record; Norsk Hydro’s dealings in the Amazon basin don’t vindicate that record, to say the least.

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  • Maria do Socorro Costa Silva, 2020. "To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest," Chapters, in: Claude Henry & Johan Rockström & Nicholas Stern (ed.), Standing up for a Sustainable World, chapter 10, pages 125-127, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20009_10
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