The Amazon is burning. Bolsonaro says his critics are setting the fires, to make him look bad.
8/22/19
< < Go Back
from The Washington Post,
8/22/19:
The signs of crisis are everywhere.
Sao Paulo, the Western Hemisphere’s biggest city, was covered in a blanket of smoke this week that turned day to night. The viral campaign #PrayfortheAmazon is washing across social media. And one of the government’s leading research agencies is saying that rates of deforestation in the Amazon are skyrocketing — along with the rate of forest fires.
But Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the man most able to stanch the unfolding crisis in the Amazon, isn’t just ignoring the problem. He’s suggesting it’s being staged to make him look bad.
More From The Washington Post (subscription required):
Rss Feed