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Brasil's recently-elected fascistic president Bolsonaro has been fanning the flames, so to speak, as regards Amazon burning. That's attracted a sharp global response, including trade and financial actions.

The political granstanding and sensationalising starts there.

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The ecology of our planet doesn't care about the political leaning of whoever is burning their forests or polluting the planet. Global environment changes exactly the same when it was the hard-left of Lula and Dilma burning Amazon, or when it is now the hard-right of Bolsonaro doing the same.

The real problem here, is that some people are only interested in hearing nice words from whoever is presiding a country, not in what consist the actual concrete actions of a government.

Whilst true action is preferred, lip service at least doesn't further encourage and shield further harmful activity, though it may impair true reforms.

Though it may be an ironic truth that Bolsanaro's intransigence could bring about greater action through the international pressure. Something of a political equivalent of Cunningham's Law.

Hard left? Seriously. They were center left if anything.

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