This will be good news only when we start hearing about reforestation rates exceeding deforestation. Till then it’s just various levels of bad.
Let’s hear about reforestation in Europe and Asia. You guys destroyed your forests hundreds of years ago…
This ain’t it chief. The old growth european forests were destroyed centuries ago. That doesn’t mean that we should accept Brazil destroying one of the worlds remaining old-growth forests.
Never said anything about that. But the focus is always on the poor colonised countries to protect their nature and not develop. While Europe destroyed its forests and much of the forests of the world through centuries of colonialism.
What about this. If the developed world wants the Amazon and other rainforests to stay intact, why don’t they pay Brazil, Bolivia, Indonesia etc.?
Payment implies a capitalist world order, which would be impossible if we lived in a world where natural resources are given non-extraction value. So rich countries paying poorer countries for environmental purposes is already a nonsense premise. In a different socialist world, maybe that could work in some way. Regardless of how you want to frame it, deforestation should be opposed in all ways, including state-sponsored violence.
Why would payment imply capitalism? Pay in resources idk, who cares. Europe is rich because of the material wealth from South America, Africa and Asia.
For Brazil to forgo exploiting its material wealth, it has to be compensated.
Or it will forever exist in a subservient and underdeveloped state.
That’s just pure logic, I’m not sure what is wrong with what I said.
Because it won’t happen and can’t happen in our current world. It’s nonsense. It’s like pontificating what would happen if personal teleportation existed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.mongabay.com/2024/02/megafires-are-spreading-in-the-amazon-and-they-are-here-to-stay/amp/ Look at this news now It seems that the new president has its fault on this too…
All we had to do was kick the liberal away and elect a leftist president. I wonder how low Amazon deforestation would be if the CIA didn’t arrange a coup here every decade or two.
Yeah Bolsonaro is not a liberal, more like a wannabe fascist. And Lula is the actual neoliberal. All about the politics and platitudes and light populism. But still, the Brazilian’s private banks profited more during all of Lula’s years as president…
The truth is there can’t be a left in Brazil. The CIA would never allow it. When someone slightly left to the center (Dilma) tries to do any sensible actual social democratic idea she gets couped.
Both of them are liberals, but one is on the center the other is a fascist, one does not preclude the other.
Neoliberal, lula, now that’s going waaaaay too far.
How different was he from Labour in the UK during Blair’s years? Or the Democratic Party in the US?
Populism with policies that benefit the big banks and corporations. Band-aid fixes for the poor so they stop complaining. Funnelling wealth into the uber-rich.
Why was the capitalist class in Brazil perfectly content during the first Lula years? They only rebelled under Dilma.
For reference, where are you from? I’m Brazilian and Lula regularly gets “accused” of being a communist, we also have an openly communist Defense Minister. Lula implemented many communist policies like strong wealth redistribution, food and housing for the poor, etc etc etc.
Sadly, our country is still ran by the rich, it’s a fake democracy and Lula is forced to give them gifts otherwise he can’t govern. Just the other day we had a ‘crisis’ with our Congress President refusing to vote any government laws because the elites weren’t getting enough money, he called “articulation”. Lula started giving them money again and everything started to progress smoothly.
I don’t want to say where I’m from, but I am very familiar with Brazilian politics so it shouldn’t matter.
None of those policies are communist. Communism is a future state of society after socialism, where there is no state, money or classes.
Those are social-democratic policies. Like there were in the US and Europe after WW2 up until the age of neoliberalism in the 70s-80s.
They are better than neoliberalism, don’t get me wrong. I much prefer Lula than a neoliberal like Temer or a fascist like Bolsonaro.
But that doesn’t change that Lula is a neoliberal, with some social-democratic policies.
It’s not entirely his fault (even though other politicians like Dilma are less neolib brained than Lula…) as Brazil is, like most other places in this planet, a province of the US Empire.
It’s an exploitation province, built to extract wealth into the central provinces. The elites that exist exist because they perpetuate this system. They benefit a little, but comparatively to the misery of the masses, they live as kings so it’s good enough for them.
Lula can keep doing what he does if he doesn’t stop the flow of wealth to the outside. If he stops it in any way, couped again.
We’re all second-class citizens of the Empire. Yes, even you workingperson from the US/Canada/Germany/UK etc etc.
