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“The Amazon is ours, not yours,” he told a European journalist. I wonder if there's a scenario somewhere, already worked out, where this is not true anymore. A
by Keyframe 7y ago
“The Amazon is ours, not yours,” he told a European journalist.
I wonder if there's a scenario somewhere, already worked out, where this is not true anymore. A military takeover of the amazon basin.
- nfrbc 7y agoIt won't happen because Bolsonaro is too cozy with the US government, both have the same anti-leftist "own them libs" political leaning. Who's going to do it? Europe? Asia?
- xvilka 7y agoWell, surely there should be smart people on this planet. Amazon is a lot more important for the planet and humanity than the country it resides in.
- Keyframe 7y agoIt's an amusing thought experiment. China? They seem to be focusing on the topic of environment.
- Bayart 7y agoChina's burning more coal by the day.
- throwawayr1188 7y agoThe world needs less "well meaning" interventionists like you.
- ulisesrmzroche 7y agoDoes it? Why? :crickets:
- bogwog 7y agoImagine that same exact mindset from the point of view of Bolsonaro and his supporters. That land is ours! If we burn it all down, there won't be anything left for them to "protect", and we'll be able to build whatever we want on it
- ulisesrmzroche 7y agoThat's not interventionist tho. The same point of view framed as an intervention would be to come to America and burn our forests down. But that's not an intervention, rite? That would be an act of war. An intervention is supposed to be for the greater good of the collective, as in win-win. This is just more left vs right stuff. This is why Jesus invented day drinking. In a sane world, the CIA would have already faked some bullshit, and taken the guy out, let us all get on with paying our taxes in peace.
- refurb 7y agoSame mentality that got us into Iraq. If we had just respected their sovereignty, we never would have gone there.
- ulisesrmzroche 7y agoIMO, we went there precisely to show that we don't respect anyone elses sovereignity, specifically not theirs.
- Keyframe 7y agoHow did you arrive to the conclusion I'm an interventionist?
- the8472 7y agoA takeover seems messy. Wouldn't destroying infrastructure used by businesses that destroy the rainforest be sufficient? And if any country decided to do that wouldn't a military-enforced economic blockade to quench those exports be even less bloody and achieve the same? Total war to save the planet is an interesting narrative, but it does not seem very efficient unless you have some cheap to deploy doomsday WMDs.
- pjc50 7y agoEven Brazil can't achieve a military occupation of the rainforest. It's enourmous, and by definition trackless jungle. Not to mention how ludicrous the idea of armed international environmentalism is. What would most likely happen is its destruction, Vietnam-style. The defenders would burn it in their retreat like Napoleon's defeat at Moscow.