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Large dams fail on climate change and Indigenous rights

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Brazil has flooded large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 per cent of its electricity from hydropower. Brazil’s government had plans to expand development, opening half the Amazon basin to hydro. But a surprising announcement could halt that.

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David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

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