When nearly 159 million Brazilians go to the polls to elect a president on Sunday, they will also be deciding the fate of the world’s largest rainforest. The Amazon, a climate regulator and a key bulwark against global warming, with the largest freshwater reserves on Earth and natural riches still unknown in many cases, faces two completely opposite models for its future in this election. Yet the issue has been almost absent from the campaign.

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