Amazon Fires: Why a new economic model must come from the ruins

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To fight the Amazon fires we need more than water cannons and law enforcement - we need a new economic model, writes Forum for the Future's Roberta Iley

The fires raging in the Amazon have been covered extensively by the media and labelled an environmental disaster. But does this label tell the full story? What we are really talking about is a complex...

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