[matheusmoreira]

It's not odd at all. It's just the method by which they plan to criminalize their political opposition. They don't talk about the root cause because they are all liars themselves, and the only thing they care about persecuting their enemies. Addressing the causes will hit uncomfortably close to home.

Brazil's president, the exact same guy who this article claims is "leading the new international effort against climate change", has literally admitted in front of cameras that he goes to events like these and just makes up numbers on the spot. He goes to places, preferably places filled with foreigners, and just starts spouting nonsense statistics. This event was probably no exception. His ministers also engage in this healthy tradition, not too long ago one of them was claiming a hundred million brazilians were dying of hunger. They'll say anything if it gets them what they want.

I don't even have any particular objections to their pathological lying. They're politicians, that's what they do. It gets ridiculous though when they start accusing their opponents of "fake news", when they start trying to criminalize it. To me it's just beyond absurd to watch this particular guy and his people object to "misinformation" of all things.