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"There’s no prison (yet) for climate criminals, but if there was, Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro would have a spider-infested cell all to himself. Now
that Trump is gone, Bolsonaro — a.k.a. “The Trump of the Tropics” or “Captain
Chain Saw”— is the most dangerous climate denier in the world. In his two years
as president, Bolsonaro has presided over the destruction of about 10,000
square miles of the Brazilian rainforest, one of the most precious ecosystems
on the planet. And like Trump, Bolsonaro is proud of his efforts to fuck up the
planet. If people were so concerned about climate change, he once suggested,
they could eat less and “poop every other day” to save the Earth. When Pope
Francis called out the “blind and destructive mentality” behind razing the
rainforest, Bolsonaro responded by telling journalists, “Brazil is the virgin
that every foreign pervert wants to get their hands on.”
If the climate crisis weren’t so urgent, Bolsonaro would be a problem only for
Brazil and its neighbors. But Brazil is a key player in the push to zero-out
global carbon pollution. Rainforests absorb about 10 percent of CO2 emissions.
With every square mile of rainforest that is cut down, the Paris Agreement’s
target of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 C becomes more and more
unattainable. “If we can’t do something about deforestation in Brazil, then the
1.5 C target is probably out of reach,” says Jake Schmidt, senior strategic
director for climate with the Natural Resources Defense Council."
Via Robert Sanscartier.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
