G&R Episode 89: The Movement to Save the Rainforest w/ Randy Hayes, founder of Rainforest Action Network

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · May 25, 2021 · 53m

The 1980s saw a new consciousness of environmental awareness, particularly around the Earth’s rainforests. Scientists had discovered that, aside from their enormous biodiversity, rainforests also helped to keep carbon from being released into the atmosphere.

Corporations in the U.S. and Europe saw tropical rainforests as a means for profit. For a long time, Indigenous communities had stood against industrial development and deforestation. And by the 1980s, environmental groups in Europe and Australia had been actively fighting deforestation on a grassroots level. But in the U.S. environmental…