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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:29PM (#20782798)
According to the NASA the fires of this year are in the average so what exactly are they trying to achieve? Is this simply populism?

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...

>As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.

>The memo made some very poignant points, but then the author expressed some strange opinions that I would never attempt to defend.

Yeah but why have a discussion group about politics if you can only defend the mainstream points of view?

"Pinboard has been keeping track of political donations from big tech companies" does not seem to imply that it's a completely biased report, but yeah, I should have known better :P