With the fire in Brazil ’s Amazonstill chafe , a select few world leaders at the G7 summit meeting in France agreed to pledge € 20 million ( $ 22 million ) in aidto facilitate Brazil tackle the fires , principally by sending in firefighting aircraft and supporting a re-afforestation plan .
However , Brazil has said it ’s not interested . The Bolsonaro administration has rejected the billion of clam of tending and accused French President Emmanuel Macron , who helped spearhead the assurance , of bear “ colonialist ” intentions .
“ Thank you [ for the go ] , but perhaps these resources are more relevant to reforest Europe , ” Onyx Lorenzoni , Brazil ’s chief of faculty , enjoin Brazil’sGlobo program meshwork .
“ Macron can not even forestall a fire in a church service that ’s a World Heritage Site , ” he added , referring tothe fire at Notre Damein April this yr . “And he wants to teach our country ? He has a lot to look after at dwelling house and in the Gallic colonies .
“ Brazil is a popular and free nation that has never had colonialist and imperialist practices , [ which are ] perhaps the intentions of the Frenchman Macron . “
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro personally dismissed the pledge as a thin veil endeavor to control the Amazon by compound big businessman , tweetingthat President Macron “ disguise his intentions behind the approximation of an ‘ confederation ’ of the G7 countries to ‘ save ’ the Amazon , as if we were a dependency or a no - human beings ’s country . ”
Over 41,850 ardour have been recorded in the Amazon this year , according to data point from Brazil ’s National Space Research Institute ( INPE ) analyzed byMongabay . That ’s almost double the routine seen last year , however , it ’s considerably less than the levels seen between 2002 and 2010 .
Faced with an unprecedented backlash from the international residential area , Brazil has have some independent action to curb the fires . Over the past few days , it announcedplans to put ahead 700 military personnel and up to 28 billion Brazilian reais ( $ 6.8 billion ) to fight the fires . The military also deployed two C-130 Hercules aircraft to plunge thousands of liters of water over the timber canopy to quell the blaze .
Even before this month ’s fires , Brazil ’s environmental policies under President Bolsonaro have come under a lot of heat . His governance , make out to have closemouthed ties to agribusiness , has overseen asharp ear in disforestation . Over 2,254 satisfying klick ( 870 hearty miles ) of Amazon rainforest were chopped down in Brazil during July 2019 alone , a 278 percent increment on the same period in 2018.Brazilhas also approvedover 1,000 raw pesticide products since 2016 .
President Bolsonaro regularly beats off criticism of his environmental policies using nationalistic and anti - colonialist rhetoric . Speaking toEuropean journalists in Julyabout deforestation , Bolsonaro say : “ We understand the importance of the Amazon for the world – but the Amazon is ours , not yours .
“ No country in the world has the moral right to speak about the Amazon , ” headded . " You destroy your own ecosystems . ”
