[dna_polymerase]

Would be all for the sanctions, but the EU just signed a free trade agreement with Brazil (Mercosur). That agreement put Brazil's farmers at an advantage, they can now sell to the EU, and produce cheaper than European farmers. If anything that accelerated the trend we see now in the Amazon.

Also, Trump's trade war with China led China to heavily invest in Brazil's soy. Another accelerator of Amazon burning.

So, after all it isn't just Bolsonaro, it is also our (the western world) fault. The officials we elected allow for this in the first place.

[icebraining]

What part of the EU-Mercosur agreement do you see impacting this? Soya was already imported without tariffs, and the low-tariff beef quota is just 100k tonnes, divided over the four Mercosur countries, whereas Brazil alone already produces 11 million tonnes of beef.