Halting Jair Bolsonaro's scorched-earth environmental practices will require organised political action and protest
raging in the rainforest. A social-media storm in which #AmazonIsBurning dominated what passes for the global conversation. A war of words in which Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, branded as a liar his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, who in turn accused Mr Macron of colonialism and mocked his wife’s looks. An offer of $22m from the7 countries to help fight the fires, which Mr Bolsonaro rejected unless Mr Macron ate his words. It has been an extraordinary ten days for Brazil.
7 without inviting Brazil. While the world has a legitimate interest in the rainforest’s fate, it doesn’t own it . Mr Bolsonaro is right, too, that fires were worse in some past years. Many maps exaggerate their extent. Like Janus, his government faces two ways on this issue. Brazilian diplomats abroad present their country as committed to halting deforestation. At home, the president winks at those who practise it. That is why it is important to hold his government to its word.
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