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brazilian president. last june, the president and other indigenous leaders recorded a video warning about the attacks. [ speaking in foreign language ] that same month, according to officials numbers, deforesttation in the amazon accelerated more than 60% to the same period last year but other consequences emerged. several studies affirmed that the number of fires each year is highly correlated to the defore defore deforestion.
the carbon food prints, tar sands versus regular extraction and the idea it won't cause environmental damage, defore-- deforesting. >> and all the states it would go through approved? >> number one, it's not just this pipeline. by getting this pipeline approved we now start the wheels for the 12 other pipelines that we need because if we get those pipelines built we will be larger exporter of oil than saudi arabia, number two, if you look at the pipeline disasters we've had and all of them, they do happen, they have not amount today an absolutely hill of beans. this technology is built in the 21st century now, the pipelines we've had problems with were built in the 19th century, could be 5 million, 6 million jobs.