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Sumaúma: Journalism from Center of the World
Edition 47
Monday, 21 October, 2024
Our Voice
Climate is Nature. Nature is climate
The Colombian hosts of COP16 are rightly trying to reconnect biodiversity protection and emissions reduction, but - with Brazil’s help - they should go even further and recognise ecology is the basis for the economy

Jonathan Watts
Altamira, Xingu River, Amazon

Climate is Nature. Nature is climate. At SUMAÚMA, we have long stressed the need for these foundations of life to be considered as an inseparable whole. So we are encouraged to learn that one of the primary goals of the upcoming COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia is to recombine these issues in international policy making.

If that goes ahead, it will be an important change in thinking, but it should just be the start. If humanity is to find a way out of the monumental mess it has made of our home planet, the needs of Nature must take priority over the needs of the economy.

That will be a much greater political challenge, but we believe there is a way - and it would put Amazon nations where they belong: at the centre of the world.
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Planet in Collapse
A tale of two COPs and one planetary problem
A worsening climate and the destruction of Nature are connected but treated separately at parallel global events that dialog very little with each other, hindering an effective response to the world’s polycrisis
Jaqueline Sordi, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Interview — Other Voices
‘An ecological civilization will have to be socialist’
A critic of the consumption of resources that produce no common good, such as military spending and advertising, Canadian activist Ian Angus wants an economy that is organized to meet social needs rather than private profit
Claudia Antunes
Elections
Far right gains in the Amazon: why do Nature’s destroyers win elections?
Militarism, agribusiness, evangelical Christianity, and links to criminal factions – SUMAÚMA examined why predatory political forces are consolidating their power ahead of the 2026 presidential race
Malu Delgado, São Paulo, and Rafael Moro Martins, Brasília
FRONTLINE DISPATCH
Journey to the center of the fire
Photojournalist Edmar Barros travels through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought. In this diary, published by Amazônia Latitude in partnership with SUMAÚMA, he discusses his expedition
Edmar Barros
Planet in Collapse
The Pantanal’s last Indigenous people and the second end of the world
The Guató and Boe Bororo peoples are fighting uncontrollable fires and the extinction of a nearly 9,000-year-old civilization
Juliana Arini (text) and Rogério Florentino (photos), Terra Indígena Baía dos Guató
Planet in Collapse — Comics Journalism
‘I’ve been here some four months now, but it seems longer’
Devanir Pinheiro, 70, lost his home to flooding in Arroio do Meio and is now living rent-free in the remains of a dealership, while he waits for new land to live on from the municipal government
Pablito Aguiar, Alvorada, Rio Grande do Sul
Planet in Collapse — Comics Journalism
‘The flood knocked all the trees down, right? They’re all dead, dry’
Rosane Kressin forages for firewood with her husband in the Passo de Estrela neighborhood, which used to be full of life and is now completely in ruins
Pablito Aguiar, Alvorada, Rio Grande do Sul
Spotlight
Dyeing the streets red for 100 years
Revelers in Gurupá fight to keep faith and resistance alive during the festival of Saint Benedito in Quilombo communities in the Marajó Archipelago
Soll (text and photos), Gurupá, Arquipélago do Marajó, Pará, Amazon
Liternatura
Delta: how many letters does it take to describe a mud teeming with life?
A journey through the literature of the great deltas, true frontiers of Nature, where the end (of the river) meets the beginning (of the sea)
Gabi Martínez, Barcelona, Spain
FRONTLINE DISPATCH
The bloody resistance against palm oil
Indigenous, Quilombola and Ribeirinho communities in Acará Valley are raising walls against the expansion of monocultures, which threaten ancestral rights and taint the soil and water
Guilherme Guerreiro Neto, Tomé-Açu, Pará
FRONTLINE DISPATCH
Rainforest internet lies in the unpredictable hands of Elon Musk
The government must invest in alternatives if it wants to prevent an Amazon monopoly by the billionaire boss of StarLink, who is linked to the global far right and refuses to comply with Brazil’s laws
André Duchiade, Rio de Janeiro
Howler
Episode 49
A nonhuman take on the Amazon story. SUMAÚMA follows the journey of a howler...
Pablito Aguiar, Raimunda Tutanguira, and Jonathan Watts
Howler
Episode 50
..as he explores his forest home and tries to understand the humans who threaten it
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