As you may have heard, The Amazon Rainforest is on fire.
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro ran on a platform of developing the rainforest for ranchers and farmers. As president, he rolled back protections that prevented developing the rainforest. When the head of Brazil’s space reasearch center reported that there was massive deforestation happening because of development, Bolsonaro fired him.
When it was revealed that fires in the Amazon were up 83% over last year and were the worst since we started counting them, Bolsonaro said that it’s just because it’s the “burn season.” Obviously, it’s an explanation which falsely equates all burning as being the same and dodges the question of why there’s so much more of it under his administration.
