Brazilian Farmers Believe They Have the Right to Burn the Amazon

Bolsonaro is often called the Trump of the Tropics, and he has the same authoritarian streak, penchant for racist rhetoric, and disdain for science. This week, he claimed the fires were likely started by non-governmental organizations to “call attention” to the fact that their funding has been cut. His chief of staff said European nations lie about deforestation in Brazil and that he had no plans to visit the burning swaths of forest. “I’ll go see something more important,” he said.

The tragedy of all of this is that for over a decade, Brazil was the world’s leader in stopping deforestation. Under the leftist Worker’s Party, deforestation in Brazil dropped by 85 percent between 2004 and 2015 due to a series of aggressive reforms and the demarcation of national forest, conservation units, and indigenous reserves.

The burning season was just getting started when I visited, and in the city of Novo Progresso, in the southwest corner of Para, not far from Mato Grosso, cattle ranchers and land speculators told me they were thrilled by Bolsonaro’s election. As they saw it, the Brazilian government had sent them there in the 1970s to develop the Amazon, and then turned on them with fines and the confiscation of equipment.

There was a sense of panic and desperation among the rainforest advocates I met during my three-week long trip. Jose Sarney Filho, who served as environmental minister under two presidents, says Bolsonaro is systematically dismantling environmental protections. “What is happening is unprecedented,” Sarney Filho says. “This new government is trying to destroy what we built over 30 years.”

jessehyde7 That’s not the Amazon to blame for income inequality. You’re burning down the wrong Amazon!

jessehyde7 That’s not the Amazon they should blame for income inequality. These farmers just got the name mixed up, they’re burning down the wrong Amazon

Trump wants to buy something-why not make an offer for all of the land that they have been burning,of course with the caveat of it becoming U.S. territory.

RSPolitics We keep buying, they keep burning.

Stop posting old pictures! It happens every year during the dry season. Even NASA have already pronounced that it is too early to make any conclusion on this matter. Be responsible and do not promote fake news

Fake News

So they did it on purpose lol

Por quê não dão uma olhada na Bolívia? O maior incêndio está lá. Vão se informar melhor! Se informar a respeito de tudo. Não façam uma reportagem canalha como essa.

they so **ckin' wrong

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