Picture of a deforested area taken during surveillance by officials from Para State, northern Brazil, in the Amazon rain forest in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. - The Amazon basin has, until recently, absorbed large amounts of humankind's ballooning carbon emissions, helping stave off the nightmare of unchecked climate change. But studies indicate the rainforest is hurtling toward a "tipping point," at which it will dry up and turn to savannah, its 390 billion trees dying off en masse. Already, the destruction is quickening, especially since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019 in Brazil -- home to 60 percent of the Amazon -- with a push to open protected lands to agribusiness and mining. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

How Your 401(k) Is Helping Destroy the Amazon Rainforest

The growing financialization of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation.

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