The mire of Brazil’s BR-319 highway: Deforestation, development, and the banality of evil (commentary)

Mongabay
Sep 19, 2025, 1:18 pm194 ptsTrendingTop
The continued failure to halt the BR-319 highway cutting through the Brazilian Amazon is an example of the systemic problem identified by Hannah Arendt in her study of the minister of transportation of Nazi Germany, who had administered the movement of trains throughout Germany and its occupied territories,…

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