Skövlingen av Amazonas ökar kraftigt. Snart kan skogen försvinna helt och hållet. Vad händer med vår planet om världens största regnskog ödeläggs? Och vem är ansvarig?

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En regnskog ska inte kunna brinna - ändå ligger röken tät över stora delar av Brasilien. Vilka är det som driver på skövlingen och bränderna? Varför är floderna förgiftade av kvicksilver? Och vad händer när skogen inte längre klarar trycket?

Amazonas framtid hänger på en skör tråd - kan vi rädda den i tid?

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Alexandre Antonelli - professor i biologisk mångfald vid Göteborgs universitet och forskningschef på Kew Gardens

• Lotten Collin - reporter på Sveriges Radio och tidigare latinamerikakorrespondent

• Carlos Nobre - klimatforskare och meteorolog vid universitetet i São Paulo

• Luciana Gatti - klimatforskare vid Brasiliens nationella institut för rymdforskning (INPE)

Artiklar

• Forest on Fire (Naturskyddsföreningen, 2021)

• The Amazon Burning - Benjamin Kunkel (LRB, 2019)

• The Tragedy of the Amazon - Kenneth Maxwell (NYROB, 1991)

• Don’t look at trees - Greg Grandin (LRB, 2014)

• Brazil’s Dead End - Larry Rohter (NYROB, 2020)

• The Green vs. the Brown Amazon - John Terborgh (NYROB, 2007)

• A Dying World - John Terborgh (NYROB, 2000)

• The Mystery of Chico Mendes - Kenneth Maxwell (NYROB, 1991)

• Brazil Turns, Lula Returns - Vincent Bevins (NYROB, 2022)

• Crisis in the Amazon - Adriana Queiroz Testa et. al. (NYROB, 2019)

• Out of Contact - John Terborgh (NYROB, 2012)

• Bolsonaro’s Brazil - Perry Anderson (LRB, 2019)

• RAINFOREST ON FIRE - Alexander Zaitchik (The Intercept, 2019)

• OPERATION AMAZON REDUX - Tatiana Dias (The Intercept, 2019)

• Amazon deforestation fuelled by disinformation - Catherine Early (The Ecologist, 2022)

• Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change - Luciana Gatti et. al. (Nature, 2021)

• Svenska sparpengar kopplas till skövlingen av Amazonas (FairFinanceGuide, 2020)

• An extensive reef system at the Amazon River mouth - Rodrigo L. Moura et. al. (SciAdv, 2016)

• When will the Amazon hit a tipping point? - Ignacio Amigo (Nature, 2020)

• Activists Who Sacrificed Their Lives To Save The Amazon Rainforest (WorldAtlas, 2020)

• SOJA – EN VIKTIG PROTEINKÄLLA MED PROBLEM (WWF)

• Limiting the high impacts of Amazon forest dieback with no-regrets science and policy action - David M. Lapola et. al. (PNAS, 2018)

• Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide COMMENTARY AND CORE TEXT (2021)

• How 165 Words Could Make Mass Environmental Destruction An International Crime - JOSIE FISCHELS (NPR, 2021)

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• Drömmarnas Amazonas - Lotten Collin (SR, 2021)

• When will the Amazon reach its tipping point? - Luciana Gatti (GLF, 2021)

• The Amazon isn't ”Burning” - It's Being Burned (VLOGBROTHERS, 2019)

• The destruction of the Amazon, explained (VOX, 2019)

• Overwhelming and Collective Murder - Werner Herzog (80-talet)

• Meet the Ranchers Who Claim the Brazilian Amazon is Theirs to Burn | The Dispatch (NYT, 2019)

• The Amazon carbon balance: the rainforest is releasing more carbon than it absorbs (Sky, 2021)

• Olof Palme Stockholm Conference 1972

• Illegal Loggers: The Tribe Waging War in the Amazon (VICE, 2015)

• Brazil Amazon forest defender shot dead by illegal loggers (Al Jazeera, 2019)

• Killing the Amazon: How the rainforest is faring under deforestation (ABC News, 2021)

• Amazon rainforest on fire: ‘Lungs of the world’ in flames l Nightline (ABC News, 2019)

• Jair Bolsonaro's provocative views in six clips (The Guardian, 2018)

• Moment Brazil presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed (The Sun, 2018)

• Brazil's Bolsonaro accused of crimes against humanity at ICC over Amazon deforestation (ANC, 2021)

• Victor Galaz om avskogningen (Expressen, 2019)

• Amazon fires a 'lie' says Brazil's Bolsonaro (AFP, 2020)

• 'Lungs of the world' - Amazon rainforest now emits more CO2 than it absorbs (FOX, 2021)

• Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazilian presidential elections (Euronews, 2018)

Musik

• Vince Pope - Coming Down

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empty Places (reprise)

• Cliff Martinez - Fire It Up Again

• Mac Quayle - 2.9_5-pyth0n.stn

• Jesper Kyd - Tension In The Nest

• Kid Loco - Theme From The Graffiti Artist

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Marcus Bagala - Wires: Tangerines

• Sophie Harris - Exhumation

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells Too

• Lex Baxter - Coffee Bean

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Ben Salisbury - Estate

• Cristobal Tapia de Veer - The Public

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Too Too

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Cliff Martinez - I Got Time

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Sophie Harris - Travelling Coffin

• Michael McCann - Home

• Martin D Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem

• Cliff Martinez - I Can't Dig Her Out

• Calexico - Untitled III remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Dead Man Walking

• Helios - Even Today

• Hans Zimmer - You're So Cool

• Hans Zimmer - Rain

• Maciel Salu - Machadeiro