Dispatches from the now-now.
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While world leaders rehearse speeches about saving the Amazon, Brazil is quietly preparing to bury its climate shame—literally—on top of quilombola communities. Welcome to COP30. Don’t forget your biodegradable lanyard.
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In Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s "And Still the Earth," Brazil’s descent into environmental and social ruin was fiction in 1981. Now, it reads like an accelerated prophecy of the Anthropocene.
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How Africa's oil-rich liberation heroes became the villains of their own story.
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How a country with progressive laws became a graveyard for women.
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Welcome to the future of evangelism: solar-powered Jesus phones and surveillance drones targeting the world's most isolated communities.
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How a forgotten Amazon ranch reveals the machinery of corporate amnesia.
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The case of Singh, a legally contracted immigrant detained in a police-run facility, exposes the dark absurdity of Portugal’s migration system.
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REDD+, carbon credits, and the Anthropocene are reshaping the Amazon—but not in the ways glossy sustainability campaigns would have you believe. This is not about saving nature. It’s about surviving the collapse.
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No tradition should survive just because it sparkles—especially when it leaves suffering in its wake.
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In 1974, the Amazon Was Sacrificed for Progress. In 2025, the Ritual Continues.
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