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Photo speaks 40,000 words and this one has done a lot in the last 24 hours to spread the devastating news from earlier this year.

thedailywhat:

Powerful Photo of the Day: Chief Raoni, of the Kayapo tribe native to the Brazilian state of Pará, weeps upon learning that Brazil’s newly elected president Dilma Vana Rousseff has authorized the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam despite hundreds of thousands of petition signatures, letters, and e-mails begging the government to reconsider.

From Etcetera:

[A] death sentence [for] the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river [has been] enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

To learn more and sign a last-ditch petition, go here.

[ver2go / thanks telemonz!]

UPDATE: I may or may not have crashed Amazon Watch. Sorry about that. So here’s an alternative link to the petition. (Site’s in Portuguese, so here’s a link to the Google translation.)