Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has changed many forest policies, since coming to power. Despite warnings from many groups (put down by him and his government as foreign meddling) these policies have resulted in significantly more fires.
Continue reading “Bolsonaro is now blaming the Amazon fires on Leonardo DiCaprio”More bad news from the fires in Brazil
Unfortunately the bad news continues: due to the determined attack on indigenous reserves within the Brazilian Rainforest, and the continual push by Poachers and others into these reserves, now condoned by Bolsonaro the Brazilian president, the fires are burning and doing particularly significant damage within in indigenous reserves.
Continue reading “More bad news from the fires in Brazil”Following on from the fires in the Amazon Rainforest story – Bolsonaro is all over the place
For anyone who reads this blog regularly and read my initial article in the run up to his election, you will have seen that this is not the sort of leader that impresses me or many people around the world. He is regularly referred to as the ‘tropical Trump’, and this is generally not a label given as a compliment.
However the fallout from last week’s news has been substantial and he has thrown out many different things in an attempt to distract the news from what he did.
Continue reading “Following on from the fires in the Amazon Rainforest story – Bolsonaro is all over the place”The impact of unregulated damage to the Amazon rainforest
For regular readers of this blog you will have noticed that I have written about Jair Bolsonaro on a few occasions. Unfortunately the fears that I have expressed appear to be bearing out in the behaviour of his government and the problems they are encountering.
Continue reading “The impact of unregulated damage to the Amazon rainforest”Bolsorano, president of Brazil, update – further rainforest threat
I wrote a few months ago about the news that Bolsorano had been elected as the next president of Brazil. I talked about the things that he had promised to do that would be detrimental to the environmental condition in Brazil and potentially South America.
While it has taken a few months for him to start changing things, it is not encouraging.
It appears that Bolsonaro is going to be as bad as we thought for the Amazon rainforest
Jair Bolsorano has only been the president of Brazil for two weeks and they have a similarly long time between election and inauguration that the United States does. Unfortunately even in that extremely short period of time he has already demonstrated a willingness and determination to be as bad for the environment as he was expected to be when he ran.
Bolsarano is Brazilian President – what will happen?
So Bolsarano has been elected as the president of Brazil. He had some quite bizarre and unpleasant policies in the run up to the election and has polarized Brazil’s population. While I find it abhorrent that a person who is racist, sexist and has dislike for most other people who are not like him has been elected as the president of Brazil my issues with him are along a different line.
Continue reading “Bolsarano is Brazilian President – what will happen?”
The Brazilian Amazon rainforest is at threat once again this time from the potential new president
Jair Bolsonaro almost achieved a clear majority in the first round of Presidential elections in Brazil. Why am I talking about Brazilian politics? Because this person has made clear that in many ways he is the Brazilian Trump. He raves against the Elite, attacks basic science and supports the brutal Brazilian dictatorship from a few decades ago and the methods they used, including torture.