The Amazon forest is roughly half of Brazil’s territory. Furthermore, roughly 60% of the Amazon is Brazilian. So, if a bad actor would want to steal Amazon’s riches, the simplest way to do it would be through the undermining of the Brazilian state. That is what happened ever since the New Republic or the Re-democratization: in 1988, the military gave the power away and Brazil became once again a liberal democracy, regulated by a new constitution. This constitution gives too many power to the Judiciary and to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

A vegan public prosecutor can, for example, argue that public schools should not buy meat, eggs or milk to their poor children, and compel the school systems of poor municipalities to sign an agreement compromising to not include animal protein in the children’ meals. This happened in 2018. No one was punished for this abuse of authority, and I found no news that these schools are feeding poor children decently again.

I mention this absurd story so that one can easily understand that Brazil lives in anarchy. And in an specific kind of anarchy where the fads of bachelors of laws flourish: veganism, feminism, and, of course, environmentalism – which leads us to Amazon.

The area of Amazonas state is larger than Mongolia’s, and has a population of just 4.2 million. As the name of the state suggests, it consists mainly in Amazon forest. If a man wants to leave Amazonas’ capital and go to Brazil’s capital (Brasília) in a car, he cannot, because the highway is not paved. And there is only one highway that connects Amazonas to the rest of Brazil.

On environmentalists grounds, the judiciary won’t let the government pave it. Currently, an Amazonian Senator appeals to the Supreme Court, asking permission to pave it, so that Brazilians can have the actual right to come and to go. But the Supreme Court is also environmentalist… Therefore, if the Amazonas happens to be invaded in a regular war, the Brazilian Army cannot even deploy its tanks!

However, nowadays, a silent invasion is more effective. Keeping the Brazilian civilization out of the largest part of the Amazon suffices for stealing its gold, mapping its mineral riches, its biodiversity, trafficking lots of drugs and normalizing a generalized criminality. Once more, the fads of bachelors of law include a pseudo-anti-racism which is just an excuse to undermine the police, the jails and the forensic asylums.

In densely populated locations, it is already a problem. Criminal factions can dominate entire territories, and the Supreme Court wont consent that the police enters there. So, talking about lack of state would be optimistic, in the case of Brazil. In Amazon, the state is present and chases civilization.

Brazil was civilized through the expansion of cattle and miscegenation with Indian tribes. The Brazilian state in Amazon wont chase drug dealers, but will chase regular Brazilians who have cattle, destroy their houses and foster an isolation between normal Brazilians and Indian tribes. The Brazilian neoliberal state watches and punishes those who are the true civilization forces in Amazon.

In order to protect the Amazon, Brazil would need to become once again a national sovereign state which fosters civilization instead of anarchy.