"We are on the edge of losing the entire Amazon." That is the great warning made by the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent six and a half years traveling through the depths of the largest rainforest in the world with a project that seeks to raise awareness of the dangers that this great lung faces while leaders World Cups look the other way and the president of his country, Jair Bolsonaro, "allows" his deforestation and his "exploitation".

He has pointed it out in a conference held at the Reina Sofía Museum and included in the official program of the Climate Summit held in Madrid, an event with which Salgado has been very critical.

"These meetings do not make sense if they do not bring to the discussion table the main part of the planet, which are the people of the countryside, the native populations, the natives. These meetings are meetings of those who try to discuss problems they do not know," the photographer stressed, who considers that in these international meetings only talk about "urban carbon", instead of focusing on those who, in his opinion, are the largest "carbon sequestrators", trees.

The 75-year-old photographer recalled that in the last 40 years 20% of the Amazon has been destroyed - "when Bolsonaro was not there yet" and believes that "the only ones who have a real concern for what is happening are Young"