The Amazon river and its tributaries are facing increasing droughts, if infrastructure in the region doesn't evolve, a significant drought could cause uther infrastructure collapse in the region. There are cities in the amazon with hundreds of thousands of people. Manaus alone has over 2 million.
The government needs to step up environmental protections around the road, but not building it is simoly not an option
BR-319 has been problematic since since the 70s, but let's make something clear: the road already exists, even if it is completely abandoned.
That particular interstate would be the only viable road connection to Manaus, a city with two million inhabitants that currently depends on the Amazon River alone for the flow of good due to the terrible state of the road. With the current critically low levels of the river? The situation is dire.
Lula didn’t pledge to pave it regardless of deforestation, he promised to start projects that would lessen the environmental impact of the project and protect the surrounding natural areas from land grabbing.
I'm Brazilian and it's frankly uncomfortable for you to imply that Lula isn't white. Again, I'm Brazilian, we don't have the concept of "latino" here. People with lighter skin are white, people with darker skin are black. "Mulato" is technically a thing but I haven't heard it in years. You are applying concepts of race that we do not ascribe to, and if asked I'm very fucking sure Lula woulf day he's white.
We're also Western and have been for centuries in effectively almost every way that matters, unless your definition of "Western" for some reason does not include Latin countries.
> We're also Western and have been for centuries in effectively almost every way that matters, unless your definition of "Western" for some reason does not include Latin countries.
lol show up in a european country and see if they consider you one of them
The Transamazonica has been an environmental concern inside Brazil too, since its inception by the military dictatorship. Also, everything that was made there was futile, because the forest just takes its space back. The soil is suboptimal and the climate is too hot and humid, therefore no pavement lasts for too long on that place.
Now, it is a fact that the people from Amazonas needs and deserves a decent infrastructure. Right now the whole country is burning. The sky ceased to be blue here in São Paulo state for the last 20 days. A road in the Amazon Forest is the last of the problems.
When the livability of millions of people in Manaus alone is at risk due to the inability to transport anything through the river, caused by the historic drought the region is facing, it kind of is.
It's also not unrelated. The widespread drought overtaking every region in Brazil, except for the Northeast (for once), is precisely the reason the criminal wildfires are spreading to such an unprecedented degree.
The fires are burning because the agro wants to burn every single tree and replace it with cattle. The drought just helps them. It's the sum of greed and a federal government that needs to balance itself on a reactionary congress and a population that is mostly worried about jobs. This country is way better now than it was with that far-right prick, but on the long run we are fucked anyways.
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> - President Luiz Inácio [Lula da Silva](https://ground.news/interest/lula_127ddc) pledged to pave a road in the Amazon, despite concerns from environmentalists about increased deforestation and climate change.
> - Lula signed a contract to pave 52 kilometers and plans to start a controversial 400-kilometer road section before 2026, without detailing deforestation prevention steps.
> - The Climate Observatory expressed concern, stating that paving without governance could lead to historic deforestation, impacting vital forest ecosystems.
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