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When Jair Bolsonaro says and repeats that we are “the country that most preserves the environment”, he wants to deceive the uninformed, excite his followers, irritate the rational part of society and build an “alternative truth.” Made in brazil to be exported as a by-product of their culture war.
In practice, he knows that his administration is completing a major firestorm, with four biomes – Amazonas, Pantanal, Cerrado, and Mata Atlântica – burning at the same time in fires caused by land grabbers and rural producers.
You know, but his response and that of his team is to find new ways to lie and hide his responsibility. Escape above all, cowardice above all. Or as the great philosopher Al Bundy would say: it’s only cheating if you get caught.
“It is a lie that this story that the Amazon is burning with fire,” he said on August 11. Photos and videos of the burning forest don’t matter, satellite images with thousands of hotspots devouring the region, and reports from hell gathered by indigenous peoples, riverbank dwellers and city dwellers. He said verbatim that “the forest does not catch fire.”
He has already blamed indigenous people, NGOs and even Leonardo DiCaprio for the burning. He said he was “convinced” that the deforestation data (which jumped last year and this year) from the National Institute for Space Research were liars and accused the then president of the agency, the scientist Ricardo Galvão, of being “at the service of some NGO “. The fault is always an external plot when it is he who openly conspires against the environment, Brazilians and the planet’s climate.
Bolsonaro bets that the construction of reality does not spring from the facts, but from his go-go. And, in his narrative, the safe conduct he gave to illegal loggers, miners, land grabbers and ranchers doesn’t translate into a jump in deforestation and fire rates. Because they are all good citizens.
In addition to all the natural and human tragedies that have been reported, it is worth remembering that we are still experiencing a pandemic that affects the respiratory system. This time of year would already be a tragedy in hospitals. Now, more people will die from the mix of covid and fires. It will say that you are only taking chloroquine. Or that they all die one day.
There is a possibility that large cities in the southeast will experience dark rain with apocalyptic skies this weekend due to streams of smoke meeting rain clouds. Bolsonaro will say that it is Photoshop.
The president also said, this Thursday (17), that we are the country “that suffers the most attacks from abroad with regard to the environment.” We agree on that. What it doesn’t say is that most attacks are justified. The world is saddened by the downfall of a country that has already tried to lead in sustainable development. A nation that gets lost with a biocide in the wheel.
And it is not just any biocide, but one that likes to spend money.
Credit to the civilized world looks at us with disgust and irritation, at this moment, entirely from him. In other words, when it comes to the blame for the tragedy, it’s yours, Jair.
