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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 02:45 PM Aug 2019

Record number of Amazon wildfires lit on purpose, claims president of Brazil

Nearly 73,000 forest fires have been reported in the country so far this year.
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THE RECORD NUMBER of wildfires blazing in the Amazon rainforest were lit on purpose by green groups, the president of Brazil has claimed.

Nearly 73,000 forest fires have been recorded in Brazil so far this year, according to official figures. This is the highest number since 2013.

#PrayforAmazonas was the top trending hashtag in the world on Twitter on Wednesday, with over 249,000 tweets.

There were nearly 40,000 forest fires in all of 2018, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

Most of them took place in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

The World Wildlife Fund has blamed the latest fires on the increase in deforestation in Brazil.

But president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro responded to criticism today over the fires by saying he believed they had been lit on purpose.

Bolsonaro said that “criminal action by those NGOs, to call attention against me, against the Brazilian government” may be the reason for the forest fires.

More:
https://www.thejournal.ie/wildfires-in-the-amazon-rainforest-4776831-Aug2019/

Conservationists would burn up the Amazon and blame it on Bolsonaro????? That's doubtful.

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Record number of Amazon wildfires lit on purpose, claims president of Brazil (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2019 OP
Of course, he doesn't provide a shred of evidence to support this conspiracy theory. Eugene Aug 2019 #1

Eugene

(61,592 posts)
1. Of course, he doesn't provide a shred of evidence to support this conspiracy theory.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 05:04 PM
Aug 2019

This is also a change of story on whether deforestation is actually happening. Classic gaslighting.

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