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by turrini 2497 days ago
Please stop.

It is not the fault of the current government. Burning happens every year in the Amazon, and everywhere across the world.

The leftist party is using international media to alarm against the current government.

There are also investigations being carried out on these burnings, as there are indications that several are criminals and were executed by NGOs in this region. Those are the same who have lost benefits (money) in recent weeks.

Yes, it is the responsibility of the current government to intervene, hold responsible and take steps to prevent this from occurring or diminishing its impact in the future. It is worth remembering that this government is only 8 months old.

People behave as if previous governments were constantly extinguishing fire and that in the last 16 days, "by the current government", the water has run out and started to set fire to everything.

The problem of Amazonian care comes from decades of neglect, and this government is only 8 months old. There should be no external intervention. Other countries (first world or not, there are no excuses) should reforest as much as they can for the global good and not just point the finger at this region (important, of course).

NGOs in Brazil are almost totally corrupt, they are cancer here in Brazil. As well as much of politics.

Many forget or do not know that former President Lula [1] assumed in interviews that his government lied about important statistical data, such as hunger and misery in Brazil to impact abroad and then present the true numbers as the savior of this country. Pure manipulation.

The current government is revisiting all research departments through a thorough process to check all numbers that were presented as true and many are questionable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5bOtqmvJHE (in Portuguese only, sorry)

2 comments

What you wrote is the government narrative, it lacks sources. The reality is that the current government has been loosening its controls a lot by dismantling the Ministry of Environment's supervisory bodies, using the narrative that climate change is alarmism. This veiled incentive to deforestation promoted by the government is being reflected in satellite data and increased burns.
Just so you know guys, this sounds like a typical Bolsonaro voter. Even implying that the multi-hundred-percent increase in deforestation just this year was fabricated by the communist scientists and that Lula somehow has anything to do with it. Or that it's good that Bolsonaro is "reorganizing" the research departments to get rid of the commies that dare to present evidence against his corrupt children or about his family's relationships with Rio militias. Or just plain firing scientists and managers from organs like INPE (National Institute of Space Research) and IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) that dared to speak out against his anti-environment speech, policies or even environmental infractions.
BTW, the multi-hundred-percent increase was referring to a single month compared to the previous year.
As I said, these burns are being investigated because they look criminal, made on purpose.

You can see in EVERY NASA report/study about Amazon's deforestation, this has been going on for decades[1] and the alarm from the international media has always been mediocre.

And no, I'm not a Bolsonaro voter.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/news/40th-top10-a...