It was three days before Christmas in 1988. Much of the world--following a blisteringly hot summer--had really begun to worry about rising global temperatures. That night, Chico Mendes stepped outside of his cottage in Xapuri, Brazil only to drop dead moments later. Mendes, a unionist rubber tapper and environmentalist, was gunned down by a cattle [...]
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