The world does not act in accordance with "society's" proclaimed values - it acts according to the sum of individual actual values. On this basis, Bolsanaro is

The world does not act in accordance with "society's" proclaimed values - it acts according to the sum of individual actual values. On this basis, Bolsanaro is right: we can talk up a storm about how Brazil needs to protect the Amazon, but when push comes to shove those poor people in Brazil are going to have to tough it out by themselves. And of course the rest of the world is not going to funnel funds to Brazil to protect the rainforest, because it will be on a hiding to nothing, forking out cash to a neverending stream of poor folk with increasingly outrageous demands. Real change in many of the things we lament in the world at the moment would require a mindset shift in people en masse - either that or a tyrannical top-down command structure. I would be curious to know which of the two is more likely.