Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
by gleglegle on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:28PM
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Your first point is misleading. Satellite imagery and in the ground evidence clearly shows that the fires are almost exclusively driven by humans. Not wildfires. This is conscious deforestation at a massive scale. The dry season has made the problem worse, but it is an unusually dry season due to climate change. Bolsonaro has definitely encouraged deforestation.
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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
by ikll on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:29PM
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Yes. Bolsonaro himself has claimed that the fires were started by humans:
Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
by gleglegle on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:53PM
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Blaming NGO's is ridiculous gaslighting. Agriculture and forestry drive Brazil's forest loss. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/361/6407/1108.ful...