In case you were having a good day, here, the Amazon is on fire
fire rates in the Amazon are at an all-time high. In total, there have been more than 72,000 forest fires in Brazil this year alone, with more than half of these concentrated in the Amazon. That’s an 80% increase from the number of fires recorded in the country last year, and it’s the highest number to date since the INPE started recording forest fires in 2013.
Environmental activists blame the deforestation on right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been gung-ho about exploiting the country’s natural resources to boost its faltering economy. Last month, Greenpeace condemned Bolsonaro for his aggressive approach toward deforestation, referring to his administration as a “threat to the climate equilibrium.”
Bolsonaro, whose nickname in Brazil is “Captain Chainsaw,” attempted to deflect criticism from environmental activists by blaming the fires on local NGOs, trying to undermine his administration. “Maybe the NGO types are conducting these criminal acts in order to generate negative attention against me and against the Brazilian government. This is the war we are facing,” he said on Facebook Live on Wednesday.
The issue has gotten so out of hand that smoke from the fires is traveling all the way from the Amazon to Sao Paolo, one of the largest cities in Brazil, which is located more than 1,500 miles away. According to one satellite map, the smoke has been spreading across the country and is even spilling over Brazil’s borders into neighboring countries.
There was worldwide outcry when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Why is there not the same level of outrage for the fires destroying the
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