Picture of oil-stained Brazilian boy goes viral

[Judi Lynn]

Issued on: 26/10/2019 - 03:23



Cabo de Santo Agostinho (Brazil) (AFP)

A boy walks ashore in Brazil in filthy waist-high water with a look of exasperation and his body smeared in oil, a photographer takes a shot, and the image goes viral.

On October 21, an AFP stringer at Itapuama beach in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in Pernambuco state, snapped the picture as the child emerged from the oil pollution that has been spreading along the coast of northeast Brazil for nearly two months.

Everton Miguel dos Anjos, 13, along with four brothers and several cousins, had joined hundreds of volunteers that day who were trying to clean the beach and scrub oil off rocks on the shore.

He waded into the water wearing a T-shirt but took it off when he saw how dirty he was getting. Then he fashioned a sort of tunic out of a plastic garbage bag.

More:
https://www.france24.com/en/20191026-picture-of-oil-stained-brazilian-boy-goes-viral

[calimary]

1. What are we doing to our earth?

[rusty quoin]

2. We are doing Trump like things. He should't be there, but he is.

So the new green deal is back burnered while Trump destroys . He just destroys. No one is more about destruction and retribution than him presidential history

[JudyM]

3. This needs to be on the cover of every newspaper and magazine.