Renata plays in the bushes in the isolated community of Brinco das Moças located in the Tapajós Basin in the Brazilian Amazon. Her community and way of life are threatened by plans by the Brazilian government to build forty-five hydroelectric dams on the Tapajós River over the next two decades. Those benefiting from the hydroelectricity would be people in far away cities and those receiving all the negative consequences would be the communities, flora, and fauna of the region. Clearly, this plan has large scale destructive repercussions that would not only alter the life of those in the immediate vicinity and the Amazon region but also affect Brazil and the world at large. Scientists have long proven that the ecosystem in the Amazon Basin helps to regulate the climate for the world.