COVID UPDATE 7/20 3:35PM PST

Rio De Janiero, Brazil. (Getty Images)

Virtually every corner of the globe has been affected by the novel coronavirus. And numerous areas around the world seem to be especially hard-hit, such as the United States and Brazil, the top-two countries on our Earth that have been leading the numbers of COVID infections, with over 3.8 million confirmed in the USA, and nearly 3 million in Brazil, according to the latest info from the John's Hopkins COVID-19 map.

While every area has had its own unique struggles with the virus, the indigenous population of Brazil has been impacted tremendously - and in multiple ways.

An article posted to "Resilience.org" explains the situation. (According to Resilience.org, "Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.")

An excerpt from the article explains,

​"Even before the arrival of COVID-19, the native peoples of Brazil were in a perilous situation, not least because of high-level attempts to use racism to legitimise the dismantling of socio-environmental protections. But the pandemic has only intensified this persecution, and despite the impressive efforts of these guardians of global biodiversity to adapt their strategies of resistance, they cannot be expected to fight the climate crisis and coronavirus alone."

"On the contrary, the connections between COVID-19, deforestation, and global perceptions of nature should be central to the thinking of policymakers and investors the world over. This moment when states and societies begin to chart their post-pandemic journey towards recovery represents a chance to move away from the “business as usual” that led to the current environmental-health crisis and to make sure that climate commitments are treated as more than words alone."

Click here to read the full article. 

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