WHEN SÃO PAULO went dark at 3pm on August 19th, the city’s 12m-plus inhabitants were stunned by the black cloud that descended on the city. Some took photos of the dystopian scene; others called loved ones in fear that the end was nigh. A popular religious YouTube channel told subscribers that Jesus was returning for the second coming.
The cloud, as well as recent alarming data about the extent of this year’s fires, provoked an outcry in Brazil. It also kindled a blazing international row over Brazil’s stewardship of the Amazon. President Emmanuel Macron of France took to Twitter to demand that world leaders discuss the fires at the G7 summit which he is hosting in Biarritz on August 24th-26th. “Our house is burning. Literally,” wrote Mr Macron. “It is an international crisis.
France and Ireland say they now oppose a trade deal between the EU and Mercosur, a South American trading bloc of which Brazil is the biggest player. The deal, decades in the making, was agreed on in principle this year but has yet to be ratified; it requires the support of each of the parliaments of all participating countries.
Scientists worry that the faster rate of destruction is bringing the Amazon uncomfortably close to the threshold, beyond which deforestation begins to feed on itself, turning much of the Amazon basin into drier savannah known as cerrado.
Money from timber and forest land too irresistible to swap for 20% giveaway oxygen to fellow earthlings, Brazilians must reason.
The smog was from Paraguay, down south. Fake story
Tell the world help northeast 👍🏻
A Amazônia é do BRASIL. Parem de divulgar mentiras. Cuidem de seus países que estão sendo destruídos por terroristas e anticristãos. O patriotismo dos brasileiros está em franco crescimento. Vocês são FAKE News.
Almost everyone knows, except the economist, that the smoke came from wildfires in Paraguay and Bolivia, those fires have already consumed 700.000 of hectares of forest. But no one see that. 🙈
Simply did not have smoke from the forest over São Paulo. I live here. It was only clouds and fake news.
TIMELY A JESUS LGBT-GOD DEPTH, TO RENT RESTRICTION TRIBUNE STATE ADDICTION.
Lie. Don't cheat your readers. Amazon winter is hot and dry. The forest blazes every year this season in self combustion as Califórnia, Portugal, Spain. MacronLies just want to boycott the trade market btw Mercosul-EU to protect Frace's farmers. That's the only reason this buzz.
Republican's are giddy over the awful destruction.
The Brazilian voters elected a fascist so they are all accountable.
Pretty sure the business community is still up on Bolsonaro. They don't care.
We need to get rid of predatory capitalism
the president is countering greta with huge success
We're all of us of voting age responsible. Make no mistake about that. No matter our nationality. If we have a vote in the 'democratic' process then it's ALL of our faults.
lexhoogduin
Bolsonaro est un criminel, les nations unies doivent réagir.
CatalinoRosas Bolsonarosucks
◽️ ◽️ ◽️ 🌑 🔴 I’m deeply concerned by the fires in the Amazon rainforest. In the midst of the global climate crisis, we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity. 🌱The Amazon MUST BE protected! António Guterres, UN Secretary-General ◽️ ◽️ ◽️
But then what is the UN doing ?... Should it not get involved under the statutory provisions to pressurise Brazil and also provide necessary help to minimise the damage and the destruction to the environment.. please do a story on this aspect also
Fake News
... fake news...
It's almost always deliberate.
Evo Morales ordered to burn forests against the will of indigenous communities.
Point of no return.
jairbolsonaro enters a plea of not guilty. Not guilty on the grounds that raising living standards so people don't have to live in squalor and fear in favelas. Not guilty that Brazilians can decide just as well as Macron and the liberal intelligentsia
Nice measure. Those engaged in the destruction of natural resources should be punished.
Something else to blame Bolsonaro for.
It's a below average year regarding fires
Sounds like California about a year ago. Your point is?
Por mas que no me guste las ideas de bolsonaro, el señor no tiene nada que ver con las quemadas, agosto es el mes que siempre se hicieron las quemadas en esta parte del mundo.
lies...lies...fakes and lies
Stop spreading fake news about Brazil and the Amazon rain forest. 1) With the card “Amazon on fire”, Macron wants to sabotage the agreement between EU and Mercosul, which faces strong resistance within France (mainly from farmers who fear competition from Brazil). MacronLies
STEWARDSHIP? First off, phuck off with this absurd conception. The Brazilian Amazon is brazilian SOVEREIGN territory, under NO OTHER law than BRAZILIAN law.
secomvc
Fake News!
Bullshitttttt
George Soros trabalhando. Mas Deus está no controle.
You are fake News
Winds in Brazil during winter gust from South to North! Amazon is in the northern region, while Sao Paulo is in Southeast! Morons!!
STOP Bolsonaro , a climate change denier who encourages incendiary outbreaks should not control it (Una nube de humo sobre São Paulo dio inicio a una ardiente disputa internacional sobre la administración de la Amazonía en Brasil.) amazoniafire
FakeNews
this is fake news motherfuck
FAKE NEWS
Fake news!
THIS IS A LIE! MacronLies
'was caused by rare atmospheric conditions that brought smoke from the fires burning thousands of kilometres away in the Amazonian rainforest' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
secomvc olha esse absurdo desmente essa fake News
Is a joke? I'm from amazon region and can guarantee this is an absurd without any sense. How can smoke reach São Paulo from Amazon without cross at least five states?
you are fake news
Vou falar em bom e velho português: - vai tomar no cu gringo safado
Sao Paulo is kilometers from the Amazon region, you are lying.
Fake secomvc acorda!!!!
Bolsonaro is a terrible human being
FAKE NEWS CANALHASSSSS... MENTIROSOSSSS DA PORRAAA... VÃO SE FUDERRRRR 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Right, this is AN ANNUAL OCCURRENCE.
Shame!
This is the true! MacronLies
Sad and shameful. JB is a dumb.
'to sack 21 of 27 senior officials' - Is that all the evidence you have? 6 senior staff members less?
Claro o mundo todo tem q saber q o terror do Brasil e o PT ok,eles são os terrores do Brasil tocam fogo até nas ruas estradas,até na floresta isso tudo é pra prejudicar o Bolsonaro q assumiu a meses o governo ok,quem fez buraco na Amazônia foram o PT o MST e deles ok.
Yes, it’s a heavy casualty.
We burned every tree between a Tennessee and Texas to plant cotton in the 1950’s.
LIES, LIER
THIS IMAGE MAY BE ONE OF 20 OR SO THAT ARE NOT EVEN OF THE AMAZON rain forests that leftists are pasting all over the place.
He doesn’t shrug. Today he the licence to the armed forces to combat the wild fires. And no one in Brazil wants to loose the Amazon, not even Bolsonaro. That’s pure Propaganda, Fake News
Fake news
No. Don't lie. It's sazonal issue. Fires happens every year. Don't cheat your reader.
we will shrug when he burns
what else could a hypocrite do?
FAKE NEWS
Nero fiddled as Rome burned.
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