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Really? You don't think Brazil (the country slashing and burning with abandon at the largest forest on the planet) bares any responsibility for climate change?
by vermilingua 2y ago
Really? You don't think Brazil (the country slashing and burning with abandon at the largest forest on the planet) bares any responsibility for climate change?
- iancmceachern 2y agoThey bare some, but much less than the "developed" world
- ninininino 2y agoDisagree. Most Brazilians don't even see a benefit from the logging and ranching done in slashed Amazon rainforest. It's a subset of Brazilians, and that subset bares the blame here. Just labeling nationalities as deserving or undeserving blame is painting with too broad a brush, and ignoring the fact that it's mostly the ultra wealthy to blame here. A poor Brazilian in a favela is a victim. A regional governor ignoring illegal logging because they receive a kickback is not.
- iancmceachern 2y agoAnd England burned all of its trees 200 years ago
- MadameBanaan 2y agoDon't forget about the countless acres of monoculture.
- iancmceachern 2y agoYou are talking about the corn and wheat fields of the American Midwest right?
- boredemployee 2y agomonoculture that feeds many other countries
- piva00 2y agoIt sure does, not only slashing and burning the Amazon but also raising cattle for beef with abandon. At the same time it still produces 1/7 of the CO2 per capita of the USA, Canada and Australia, or 1/4 of what China, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, UK, etc. Brazil bears responsibility (even more when Bolsonaro was in power) but if those countries had the emissions per capita that Brazil has the world would be in a much, much better state climate-wise.
- ryanmccullagh 2y agoYou don't seem to realize the Amazon and Rio Grande do Sul are on opposite sides of the country.
- piva00 2y agoI'm from Brazil, please lecture me more on the geography of my country... You don't seem to realise climate patterns are interconnected.