The policy of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and his government is to deforest the region. Renaud Lambert French president Emmanuel Macron thinks of himself as leading the resistance to his illiberal counterparts in other countries. He started with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, and moved on to Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s (Northern) League. The wildfires that have been destroying the Amazonian rainforest this year gave him an ideal new adversary: Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, misogynist, homophobe and climate sceptic. In August, Science magazine established a link between the smoke that darkens Brazil’s skies as far as São Paulo and its government’s policy of deforestation. Macron suggested the rainforest should be given protected status under international law ‘if a sovereign state took concrete actions that clearly went against the interest of the planet’. For a full review of this essay, click here or on the picture to download the pdf file.
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