The Intelligence: If a tree falls in the Amazon
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Our correspondents travel through the rainforest, seeing the pollution and clear-cutting firsthand. Establishing the rule of law first requires a decent property register. We examine why a proposed deal between Ethiopia and Somaliland has unsettled the whole of the Horn of Africa (11:17). And Britain’s army mulls permitting its servicemen to grow beards (18:07).
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| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Ora Ogunbei. |
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| 0:57.0 | Ethiopia is landlocked and would like access to one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. |
| 1:02.0 | Somaliland isn't recognized as a country and would like to be. |
| 1:05.6 | A potential deal that would satisfy both desires is unsettling the volatile Horn of Africa region. |
| 1:19.0 | And for over a century, British soldiers have been banned from having beards. But as the Defence Secretary seeks to overturn the ban, a new era, or shall I say, a new error or shall I say a new hare may be on the horizon. |
| 1:27.0 | First up day |
| 1:35.0 | day. |
| 1:37.0 | we're in the state. |
| 1:40.0 | We're in the state of Gondonia in the Amazon driving to Labria. |
| 1:49.0 | Recently I traveled to the Brazilian Amazon with the economist's deputy editor, Robert Guest. |
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