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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by andrenth on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:18PM (#20780717)
The article you linked is based on hearsay and people with explicit political agendas, not on facts. For example, the "unprecedented destruction" claimed by Mr. Poirier (a former assistant to Brazil's Landless Workers Movement, a far-left, anti-property rights, violent organization), is easily proven false. Just check the actual historical data and see for yourself (choose "Brasil" in the drop-down menu):

http://queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/portal/estatistica_pa...

> How do you know the alarm is due to the "hate on the President"

Worse wildfires and budget cuts have happened at much larger scale than now on previous administrations, to be met with no international outrage at all.

Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by barberousse on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:18PM (#20783251)
> Worse wildfires and budget cuts have happened at much larger scale than now on previous administrations, to be met with no international outrage at all.

Except we're in the middle of evident climate change and more than ever has attention on environmental degradation been higher

Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by andrenth on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:53PM (#20784366)
Why is no one talking about Bolivia then? They’re going through one of the largest fires ever, they have much laxer protection laws than Brazil, and yet no European government is threatening their sovereignty.
Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by zekrioca on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:05PM (#20784452)
Who is “we”? Climate change has been here since forever. You may very well be just reading the news about it more often.