Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Can humanity move beyond extraction — or will the same systems of exploitation that drive the climate crisis continue under new names?
#TheAmazon, home to unparalleled biodiversity and millions of Indigenous peoples, remains under siege from oil drilling, mining, industrial agriculture, and deforestation. At the same time, global climate finance mechanisms and carbon markets — designed to address the crisis — risk reinforcing extraction by commodifying nature rather than protecting it.
The Amazon’s future is humanity’s future.
Raya Salter hosts
Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director, Amazon Watch and
Dr. Debora Ley, Coordinator, Central American Network for Climate Change Sciences
at #COP30 in Belem, Brazil in the heart of the Amazon region.
Video Editor, Mike Coe
Thumbnail, Eric Dehais
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Website - https://www.facingfuture.earth/
For more information about #ClimateChange, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Can humanity move beyond extraction — or will the same systems of exploitation that drive the climate crisis continue under new names?
#TheAmazon, home to unparalleled biodiversity and millions of Indigenous peoples, remains under siege from oil drilling, mining, industrial agriculture, and deforestation. At the same time, global climate finance mechanisms and carbon markets — designed to address the crisis — risk reinforcing extraction by commodifying nature rather than protecting it.
The Amazon’s future is humanity’s future.
Raya Salter hosts
Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director, Amazon Watch and
Dr. Debora Ley, Coordinator, Central American Network for Climate Change Sciences
at #COP30 in Belem, Brazil in the heart of the Amazon region.
Video Editor, Mike Coe
Thumbnail, Eric Dehais
Join us on Facebook
Facebook - facebook.com/groups/facingfuturenow
Website - https://www.facingfuture.earth/
For more information about #ClimateChange, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
