Amazon deforestation: Brazil's Bolsonaro dismisses data as 'lies'

Re:Amazon deforestation: Brazil's Bolsonaro dismisses data a... by eropple on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:42AM (#20486013)

This would be actively fought against, at least in the United States, as an attempt to indoctrinate kids with "liberal biases".

Which is, if one thinks about it, the real problem at hand: when the political ideology of half a country requires complete and uncritical rejection of...yanno... the things happening in front of one's face, you can't actually fix the thing. People have to agree that it's broken first.

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Re:Amazon deforestation: Brazil's Bolsonaro dismisses data a... by jointpdf on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:17AM (#20486230)

FWIW, I went to a public middle school in rural Michigan in the 90s (not exactly a liberal bastion), and we learned how to differentiate between untrustworthy/legitimate sources on the internet. It may have just been a one or two computer lab sessions, but it has stuck with me.

So, while I’d support a policy from high that guarantees everyone this type of education, a single computer lab teacher can have a major impact on their own.

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Re:Amazon deforestation: Brazil's Bolsonaro dismisses data a... by eropple on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:28AM (#20486313)

I went to school in Maine; I have a feeling that you and I had a very similar experience.

I think the good faith available has rather remarkably drained out of even that, today.

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