Eight former Brazilian environment ministers blasted new right-wing President Ja...
BRASILIA - Eight former Brazilian environment ministers blasted new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration in a letter on Wednesday, saying it is dismantling the country’s environmental protections.
“All this reinforces in the end a sense of impunity, which is the byword for more deforestation and more violence,” they wrote, arguing that this perceived dismantling was unconstitutional. Bolsonaro on the campaign trail railed against what he has called “an industry” of environmental fines targeting farmers and at one point considered pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. He still maintains climate change may not be manmade, although Brazil remains a party to the agreement.
The former environment ministers who drafted the letter include Rubens Ricupero, who served in the early 1990s, and Edson Duarte, who stepped down at the end of the previous government.
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