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Brazil Says It Will Reject Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7
Hours after leaders of some of the world's wealthiest countries pledged more than $22 million to help combat fires in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's government angrily rejected the offer, in effect telling the other nations to mind their own business — only to later lay out potential terms for the aid's acceptance.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil expressed his ire in a series of Twitter posts on Monday, and specifically criticized and taunted President Emmanuel Macron of France, who had announced the aid package at the Group of 7 summit meeting. Their comments extended a verbal feud between the two leaders.
But early the next day, Mr. Bolsonaro offered possible terms for the acceptance of the aid package when he spoke to reporters in the capital, Brasília.
He said that if Mr. Macron withdrew "insults made to my person," and what Mr. Bolsonaro interpreted as insinuations that Brazil does not have sovereignty over the Amazon, he would reconsider.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @01:21PM
I wish there was a way to complain to a journalistic body that a print publication like Forbes is emitting misinformation and out right lies like this. I read some of that piece too and it is bursting with wrong arguments and bad data.
One snippet was that there are legitimate reasons for burning, including pest control. At a glance it seems like it's a good "oh maybe the fires aren't so bad" but in the context of an 80% year over year increase, and a lack of a massive wave of a new pest (the Amazon doesn't have locust years), it actually means the increase is WORSE, because if say 10,000 human-caused pest control fires happen every year, then last year's 20,000 fires included ~10,000 set to expand agriculture, and this year's 40,000 include ~30,000, for a projected 3x deorestation rate due to fire, not a 2x from the simple 20k to 40k.
And the rest of it is full of lying statistics like that, whether false in premise or in logic or in implication. Disgusting. Not fit to be called journalism, it's first-order propaganda.