Nikolas Ferreira: This is how the Left left the Amazon.
Nikolas Ferreira: If an indigenous person or someone else who lives there wants, for their own survival, to cut down some trees to plant a potato, a beet, whatever it may be, they are fined for it, because 95% of the region are preservation areas.
Is it worth having, quote-unquote 'everything preserved' if the people are in misery?
Nikolas Ferreira: We are not talking about degradation, about deforestation; we are talking about something responsible.
Nikolas Ferreira: And that's not what happens. Failing to responsibly exploit these abundant resources is irresponsible.