[lazyjones]

Like so many other articles, this one contains no information about the possible causes and motives behind forest fires, just a bit of hearsay. Surely in most countries, land that is forest has to stay forest even after a fire and cannot legally be used as farm land? What is the legal situation in Brazil? Could it be that reforestation has other economic benefits, like new CO2 credits?

[sprafa]

Everyone who is Brazilian will tell you it’s a long shot that this is anything but big landowners. They’ve been doing this for ages and they have murdered people who tried to stop them.

The law in Brasil is not like in other places. You think someone will stop a big landowner from getting more land after it’s been deforested? The new President has gutted the environmental agencies so nothing will or can be done.

Here’s an article on rolling stone with some more detail: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brazilia...

Notice how the local government office is under armed protection. This is to protect them from the big landowners. This is not unusual in Brasil. Please do more research

[sprafa]

Also the article is openly quoting Brasilian forest agencies - you think that’s hearsay? That’s pretty silly