Name: Brazil And The Amazon | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
Uploaded: 2019-08-04T14:38:34.000Z
Duration: 19 min 59 s
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Tonight, I want to talk about the Amazon.

The one that's losing half its assets, but not to divorce.

I heard a lot about how the Amazon rainforest needed saving.

Who caused  all this damage to the rainforest?

♪ The rain forest. The tropical rainforest. ♪

♪ Unfortunately, some don't understand ♪

♪ Like people coming in And clearing the land ♪

♪ Tragically this devastation  Doesn't have to happen ♪

♪ That's why I'm on the mic here rappin' ♪

I am absolutely fine destroying the rainforest

Look, I  always thought that was  the weirdest PSA I had ever seen,

Kevin Spacey doesn't even think it's hot anymore.

Hey, you didn't think you'd see him on Netflix again, did you?

They didn't even reshoot with Christopher Plummer.

Now, the reason  you probably stopped seeing PSAs

about the Amazon and saving the rainforest

is because we actually started saving the rainforest.

Between 2004 and 2012, deforestation plunged 84%.

Yes. It's shocking. Humans actually  stepped up and did the right thing.

But let's not give ourselves too much credit.

We didn't save the rainforest as much as we didn't fully kill it, 

but just like Nazis  and high-waisted jeans,

In the last year alone,  Amazon deforestation has jumped 13.7%,

Now, deforestation rates are on the rise,

and this couldn't be happening  at a worse time for the planet

because when it comes to climate change, we are, and I cannot stress this enough...

Dire new warnings  about the effects of climate change.

You know Fox is gonna use that against her.

They'll be like, "Oh, really? You're talking about death,

even though you're still alive.  Such a hypocrite.

Now, look, we have to stop messing with the rainforest.

The Amazon is home to 10% of all species on Earth.

It absorbs 25% of the carbon emissions  captured by the world's forests.

The Amazon also produces massive amounts of oxygen and water vapor,

which serves as the Earth's cooling system, 

which is why the Amazon is often called...

I don't know if you know this, but every part of Earth

The Amazon is the lungs. Canada is the forehead.

Iceland is the third nipple. Malta's the skin tag.

England is the birthmark. Italy is not the foot.

Italy's the bladder. Germany's the benign tumor.

Argentina is the sinus, and Fiji is the prostate.

Going there is simply  the greatest pleasure

The Amazon  touches nine different countries,

but to really understand why deforestation is on the rise,

we have to look at the country responsible for most of it.

Now, there are a lot of great things about Brazil.

Carnival, Neymar, some percentage of Hailey Baldwin

and the Brazilian wax, which is another kind of deforestation.

But it's also very painful. Over the last five decades,

almost 20% of the Amazon  has been destroyed.

Even though Brazil has laws to protect the environment,

those laws aren't always enforced because of insane amounts of political 

and corporate greed, and I know as an American,

we should probably shut the fuck up  when it comes to the moral high ground.

Americans lecturing Brazil  about corruption

is like Steve Bannon launching a skin care line.

But corruption in Brazil is truly  on a whole 'nother level.

Brazil's last three presidents  were steeped in scandals.

Dilma Rousseff, impeached for financial misconduct.

And Lula da Silva, currently in jail  for stealing DVDs from a Redbox.

And we haven't even gotten  to Brazil's massive bribery

and money laundering scandal called Operation Car Wash.

Now I'll let Fareed Zakaria, aka the original brown John Oliver, explain.