Brazil Is On Fire From Crime And Climate Doom, But, Mostly Crime

You know the story at this point: anything and everything will be brought under the banner of the climate cult

Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame

As Cristiane Mazzetti flew over the Brazilian Amazon this month surveying wildfire damage, she couldn’t help but feel frustrated.

Mazzetti is a forest campaigner for Greenpeace in Brazil. For years, the environmental group has been trying to curb the deforestation and climate change that makes the country so susceptible to wildfires.

Yes, deforestation is bad, I 100% agree. But, that is not ‘climate change’.

Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva says the country is “at war” with fire.

Fire alerts so far this month total almost 3,500 in southeastern São Paulo state, the most registered in any month since data collection began in 1998. Hot spots recorded in the Amazon this summer are up 98 per cent over last year, according to Greenpeace.

The government says these fires are far from natural.

“No fires caused by lightning were detected. This means that people are setting fires in the Amazon, the Pantanal, and especially in the state of São Paulo,” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Sunday.

The day after the president made those comments, São Paulo’s governor announced four men had been arrested on suspicion of setting fires that destroyed thousands of hectares of sugarcane plantations in the north.

State Agriculture Secretary Guilherme Piai said Tuesday that some of the arrested men told police they are linked to one of the country’s largest criminal gangs, the Primeiro Comando da Capital.

It’s still your fault for living a modern life, in case you didn’t know.

Greenpeace and other environmental experts say the key driver behind Brazil’s wildfires is deforestation — specifically, people and companies who deliberately, and often illegally, set fires in order to clear the land of vegetation so it can be repurposed for other uses, like agriculture.

Yeah, that would be crime, as well. How about that?

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