There's this rethoric of blaming environmental laws for slowing down development or shrinking the economy, along with an almost childish "Europe has burned down

There's this rethoric of blaming environmental laws for slowing down development or shrinking the economy, along with an almost childish "Europe has burned down their forests now they want ours" too. Justified by that, the government has aggressively cut budgets for multiple agencies responsible for environmental enforcement and monitoring, including a few high profile cases which led to the heads of INPE (Brasil's NASA) and ICMBio (which manages all National Parks) to resign in frustration.