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BlackRock's Big Problem: Amazon Destruction BlackRock, the world's largest investment firm, has more money invested in the fossil fuel and agribusiness industries – the biggest drivers of climate change – than any other company in the world. That means that BlackRock's portfolio constitutes a huge liability for putting the planet on a path towards runaway climate change. BlackRock's portfolio includes many companies operating in the Amazon; companies whose operations both contribute to rainforest deforestation and run roughshod over the territorial rights, health, and ways of life of the ...

Of the most precious rain forests around. this is up in bolivia where pollution is starting to take its toll. it's a beautiful place, amazing people. and -- >> it looks beautiful. >> tell us about the gold rush. what's being done to try to mitigate it? >> about 600 square miles of some of the most pristine rain forest in the western amazon is just been turned into this toxic wasteland, the miners go out on the los tigres, illicit taxi companies on dirt bikes, they go into the rain forest with a diesel pump and fire hoses. they wash the sandbags down and cut all the trees down until it starts t...