A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (e360.yale.edu)
45 points by throwaway2037 3 days ago
bix6 9 hours ago
Great film, sad story
so-cal-schemer 8 hours ago
I imagine the same thing happened in large parts of the U.S. and now it's a Ag superpower.
One day, perhaps, we'll meet all our needs with indoor hydroponics and let the land return to its natural state.
Need to manage it well so it isn't completely destroyed in the meantime.
For the near future this will be a huge boon to the Brazilian economy and global food supply.
mymythisisthis 7 hours ago
I see a good use of hydroponics, growing herbs indoors. Every kitchen having something the size of a fridge, for growing things like fresh basil, and sage.
jamesforestwest 8 hours ago
Great film, Brazil is beautiful
brazukadev 9 hours ago
Brazil is a beautiful place to bike. It would be great if it was a bit safer tho.
TFNA 9 hours ago
Brazil is almost an undiscovered country for the international bicycle-travel community. Long-haul South American routes go down the west side of the continent. Historically this was blamed on Brazil's roads being regarded as unusually narrow and dangerous. However, in the bikepacking era when lots of people want to ride rough tracks, not roads with many vehicles, it's odd that no such rough routes across Brazil have become popular among cyclists coming to the region from elsewhere.
jaza 2 hours ago
Cycling through the Andes mountains is far more appealing to most people than cycling through the Brazilian savanna is, for various practical reasons. Steep and windy vs flat and tedious. Sweeping varying scenery vs close-range monotonous scenery. Sometimes cool vs always hot. Dry dirt (in dry season at least) vs muddy dirt. Less bugs vs more bugs. Less (although still quite a few) infectious diseases vs full-on tropical infectious diseases.
so-cal-schemer 8 hours ago
I've driven along the coastline of Uruguay. Always wanted to return for a bikepacking trip. Beautiful landscape.
postsantum 4 hours ago
I feel there are good reasons for it. First, it's dangerous in terms of traffic and crime. Second, it's immense and not really interesting between points of interest. I follow a couple of motorcycle bloggers and it feels underwhelming compared to the neighboring countries
Fricken 7 hours ago
The western routes offer favourable climate conditions for cycling. Brazil's savannah is alright but the idea of pedalling 1000s of kilometres through the heat, humidity and mosquitoes of the amazon sounds atrocious to me.