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Sao Paulo, Brazil – 22 October 2024
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1. Various aerials of building mural by artist-activist Mundano depicting drought and deforestation in Amazon rainforest using paint made from the ashes of wildfires from Amazon and mud from floods in southern Brazil, mural depicting Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap wearing crown of flowers and holding sign reading (English): “Stop the destruction #keepyourpromise” ++MUTE++
2. Various aerials of Mundano and his team working on mural ++MUTE++
3. Mundano receiving an Indigenous blessing before starting his work
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mundano, 38, artist-activist:
“The entire mural was painted with ashes from the Amazon, Pantanal, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado, the largest biomes in Brazil, as well as mud from the floods in Rio Grande do Sul, which were devastating this year.”
5. Mural with name of John Cargill Macmillan painted on it
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mundano, 38, artist-activist:
“We are writing the names of a family, perhaps the wealthiest family in the United States, which is the Cargill Macmillan family, where we are reminding them and calling to fulfill their promises. This is all we are asking for. If they keep what they wrote in their goals – that by 2025, there would no longer be deforestation in the production chain, for example, in soybean production here in Brazil, in Latin America – it would be incredible.”
7. Various of team working in mural with name John Cargill painted on it
8. Aerial of people working on mural ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Brazilian artist Mundano on Wednesday presented a massive street mural in Sao Paulo that uses ash from wildfires and mud from floods to highlight extreme weather events wreaking devastation across the country — as well as their causes.
Over 30 meters (98.4 feet) high and 48 meters (157.5 feet) wide, the mural depicts deforestation and severe drought in the Amazon rainforest with its parched brown earth and gray tree stumps.
It features Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap wearing a crown of flowers and holding a sign that says: “Stop the destruction #keepyourpromise.”
It is a call to the Minnesota-based soy giant Cargill, according to Mundano.
Soy farming is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon.
Cargill’s website states that it will eliminate deforestation from its supply chain in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay by 2025.
Mundano is seeking to hold them to account.
“We are writing the names of a family, perhaps the wealthiest family in the United States, which is the Cargill Macmillan family, where we are reminding them and calling to fulfill their promises.,” Mundano said in an interview on Tuesday.
Over the past few months, uncontrolled human-caused wildfires have ravaged protected areas in the Amazon, the vast Cerrado savanna, and the world’s largest tropical wetland area, the Pantanal.
Those blazes have spread smoke over a vast expanse, choking residents of some cities.
Drought has caused a critical situation nationwide, and forecasts indicate it will persist in much of the country through at least the rest of the month, according to a Sunday report from Cemaden, Brazil’s disaster warning center.
Climate change — primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal — leads to frequent and more extreme alterations in weather patterns.
The depth of the Amazon’s Negro River was 12.46 meters (41 feet) on Tuesday, a slight increase from 10 days earlier, when it registered its lowest level since measurements started 122 years ago.
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