Brazil's well-established environmental movement is aghast. Rousseff's policies, they say, endanger the world's largest rainforest, the storehouse of one-eighth of the planet's fresh water, a primary source of its oxygen and home to countless rare and undiscovered plant and animal species, as well as tens of thousands of native tribespeople. The short-term economic gain, Rousseff's critics say, isn't worth the potential long-term cost to the global environment, as well as Brazil's economy.
"This is a government willing to sacrifice the resources for thousands of years in exchange for a few decades of profit," says Marina Silva, a former environment minister and a pioneer of Brazil's green movement.
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