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Climate doomed without Brazil
https://newrepublic.com/article/151933/climate-doomed-without-brazil ^
| 10/30/2018
| Emily Atkin
Posted on 10/30/2018 5:04:32 PM PDT by Del Rapier
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right nationalist who on Sunday was elected Brazil’s new president, has been called the “Brazilian Trump.” But he’s more extreme than that. His rhetoric is more explicitly violent and bigoted, and his rule threatens more than just the fourth-largest democracy in the world. The livability of the entire planet is at stake.
The Amazon rainforest, more than half of which is within Brazil’s borders, covers 4 percent of the earth’s surface and is a major regulator of the world’s climate. Its trees act as a sponge for carbon dioxide, absorbing the planet-warming gas from the atmosphere and re-emitting it as oxygen.
But Bolsonaro, according to HuffPost, “has committed to stop demarcating indigenous lands in the Amazon and further open the forest to mining interests. And he has pledged to loosen regulatory regimes over land-use and deforestation in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.” He also has strong ties to Brazilian agribusiness leaders who push for deforestation to make room for farming. He has said he’ll keep Brazil in the Paris climate agreement, but only if he can maintain control of the Amazon.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; brazil; climate; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; emilyatkin; fakescience; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hamiltonmourao; homosexualagenda; jairbolsonaro; mediawingofthednc; nonplayercharacter; nonplayercharacters; npc; npcs; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; psl; smearmachine; socialliberalparty; thenewrepublic
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It will be offset by the end of farming,mining and hmm human existence in Venezuela.
To: Del Rapier
Ok. Well, whatever.
To: Del Rapier
“Climate doomed without Brazil”
So, no more climate?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:09:27 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Larry Lucido
Supposedly this will create a chain reaction that will wreck our entire Biosphere,and start to melt the icecaps.We will be seeing cities drowning because of that one election.
To: Del Rapier
Oh Noes! Damn you Bolsonero!
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:10:44 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Del Rapier
Hmmmmm...The oceans also act as huge ‘sponges’ for the satanic gases. But why let science ruin a good Halloween scare story by the leftist media?
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:11:46 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: facedown
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:13:17 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: Del Rapier
“The livability of the entire planet is at stake.”
Ignorance may be cured - but stupid is forever.
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:19:21 PM PDT
by
JME_FAN
(If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
To: Del Rapier
Oh well. We have a new class of idiots to deal with.
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:22:41 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
To: Del Rapier
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:31:03 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Del Rapier
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:35:50 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Del Rapier
> The livability of the entire planet is at stake. <
The author is being way too timid here. The Earth affects our solar system. And our solar system affects our galaxy.
So Brazil's poor decisions will doom the entire Milky Way galaxy!
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:38:36 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: Del Rapier
Planet Earth has many Climates so which one ?
To: Oldeconomybuyer; facedown
I have this one covered ;-)
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:57:24 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Del Rapier
OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NOOOOOOO......
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:59:14 PM PDT
by
Trump_the_Evil_Left
(FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
To: tomkat
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posted on
10/30/2018 5:59:19 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Del Rapier
No problem, if they stop the climate engineering/weather modification it will all even out.
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posted on
10/30/2018 6:01:44 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: Del Rapier
Thus spake the little nitwit girl with a BA in journalism.
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posted on
10/30/2018 6:02:49 PM PDT
by
hinckley buzzard
(Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
To: butlerweave
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posted on
10/30/2018 6:08:55 PM PDT
by
Trump_the_Evil_Left
(FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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