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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.

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_paises 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.

barberousse 7y ago
> 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
- andrenth 7y ago
  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.
- zekrioca 7y ago
  Who is “we”? Climate change has been here since forever. You may very well be just reading the news about it more often.