Bolsonaro Doesn’t Want to Save the Amazon. He Just Wants to Extort the Countries That Do.
In theory, wealthy nations should pay to stop deforestation in Brazil. But Bolsonaro can’t be trusted to keep his end of the deal.
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It sounds a lot like extortion: After more than two years
denying that runaway deforestation in the Amazon is a real problem, the
Brazilian government now says it will protect the rain forest if the United
States ponies up. Wednesday, on the eve of Joe Biden’s virtual climate
summit with dozens of world leaders, President Jair Bolsonaro’s environment