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Vice President Hamilton Mourão (PRTB) returned to defend Brazil from accusations that the country is not capable of caring for its environmental heritage, particularly the Amazon. In an article published today on social networks, the general asked people “not to get carried away by narratives out of the hat, like that magician’s rabbit.”
“We are the nation that has the cleanest energy matrix and the largest original vegetation coverage, reaching an admirable value of 84% of the native area preserved in the Amazon and more than 60% if we consider the entire national territory. Economic and political interests aside, there is also a certain lack of information, which ends up gaining strength with those who never set foot in the Amazon, ”he wrote.
Regarding fires, Mourão said that Brazil is not the only country that suffers from this problem, especially during the dry spell. Without presenting data to prove his position, the general said the fires here “are not standard in California. [Estados Unidos] or Australia “.
“Images [de satélite] They accuse all hot spots, which does not mean fire, since this identifies any area with a temperature above 47 ºC, a fire, for example. Also, as shown on the institute website [Inpe], it is common for several satellites to detect the same fire. The raw data also does not distinguish between [queimadas] illegal ”, he justified.
The deputy also argued that the factors that lead to a fire are not mathematical, since environmental and human issues, according to him, influence “both the ignition and the spread and containment” of fires. In order for illegalities to be fought and information to be produced “to be the expression of the truth,” Mourão defended data transparency.
Updated daily, the Inpe (National Institute for Space Research) figures are public and accessible to the entire population. The institute maintains a specific fire website, where it is possible to monitor the number of identified fire outbreaks per month and per year, divided by biomes, regions and states.
In 2020, according to Inpe, 69,527 hot spots were identified in the Amazon alone, 13% more than what was recorded over the past year. The greatest increase was observed in the Pantanal, where 15,894 outbreaks have already been detected, more than triple the balance in 2019 (5,285).
The government “does not agree with the illegalities”
At the end of the article, Mourão promised to move forward, “step by step”, with a focus on improving methods, equipment and public policies to prevent and fight illegal fires in the Amazon Rainforest.
“The government of the president [Jair] Bolsonaro does not tolerate illegalities and will maintain constant efforts so that environmental criminals are confronted according to the law, since respect for the rule of law is a basic pillar of the democratic system and of Western civilization, to which we are proud to belong. “, he concluded.
