Polution by PMNT

The COP26 farce.

"Meanwhile, Bolsonaro keeps repeating that 'the forest doesn't burn because it's wet', thinking that we're all beasts and that we don't know that it's people (gangs) who cut down the forest at the beginning of the drought to burn it at the end, with organic matter already dry and susceptible to forest fires.

Members of the FPA (Parliamentary Front for Agriculture), which staged the greenwashing Brazil in Glasgow, are also nervous, wanting to make the world believe that they have nothing to do with the deforestation outbreak. But everyone knows that this caucus was decisive in approving, in the Chamber of Deputies, bills to legalize the grabbing of public lands, to make the environmental licensing of works and large economic projects merely declaratory, to legalize predatory land invasions indigenous peoples and conservation units, to allow the suppression of urban forest remnants, always contracting future deforestation.

But not only that. The ruralist caucus is also responsible for nominating the ministers of Agriculture and the Environment, as well as the heads of all bodies linked to them, such as Incra, the Brazilian Forest Service, Ibama, ICMBio, in addition to Funai. Its administrative work consists of dismantling institutions, revoking norms, emptying programs, always with the spirit of “passing the herd” – in the words of former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles.

The FPA works to defend frontier ruralism. Its clientele is made up of those who depend on state interference to obtain tax privileges, amnesty from fines, cheap public money, and the like. The “tractoraço” (distribution of overpriced agricultural machines), financed with the so-called secret budget, is a good example of the advantages obtained by them, who are more committed to financing elections. Those who live off their production, act legally and are independent of the state, are under-represented in politics and more affected by commercial retaliation.

Hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, destruction of state laws, policies and institutions, broken economy, political and family corruption, spreading of lies, return of hunger, devastation of the Amazon and other biomes, worsening climate crisis, isolation and international discredit . Bolsonaro is the embodiment of chaos!

This legacy will only worsen until the end of the current term. Should Bolsonaro be reelected, there would be no stone unturned. Any other president will have to eat the devil's bread to rebuild the country. But, having credibility, he will get external support based on the fact that Brazil is essential to the fight against the climate crisis. A paradox: the rescue of national tragedy by planetary tragedy.

However, the main condition of this hypothesis is the management of socio-environmental resources in a manner compatible with the fight against the climate crisis. What pocketnaristas see as undesirable remnants of prehistory are, in reality, the passport to the future of Brazil."

Márcio Santilli, founding partner of ISA / Neo Mondo

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