French President Emmanuel Macron slams Brazil's president over Amazon fires

Ahead of the G7 summit in France, world leaders are sounding off on the fires raging through the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. A spokesperson for French President Emmanuel Macron said Macron believes Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro lied to him in June when he reportedly promised to do more to combat climate change.

The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Bolsonaro, who is backed by the country's so-called "beef caucus." Bolsonaro has dismissed accusations of responsibility for the fires, placing blame on NGOs.

There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That's more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last year.The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is home to uncountable species of fauna and flora. Roughly half the size of the United States, it is the largest rainforest on the planet.

[ailtonsouzadearaujojunior]

"They don't want the GOOD of the Amazon, they want the GOODS of the Amazon."
CARNEIRO. Enéas,

[PauloSantos-LV]

For those who have memory, France did worse, than the fire in the Amazon. Two decades ago they made nuclear tests in the Pacific in Polynesia, the local environment, was contaminated by radiotivity. And no one in the world has ever kept it up for this.A burnt forest, can be recovered, reforested, now, when there is radioactive contamination, is different, the natives in Polynesia, were contaminated by radioactivity, which causes cancer, and there were deaths for this. Ask the president if he remembers the greatest French environmental disaster

[Davi-D]

Is funny seen France calling out Brazil. Brazil still keeping 66% of theirs forest of total territory. What about France? INDUSTRIES HERE FORESTS THERE!!!

[MXTHOUSAND]

Amazon is Brazilian 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[destinylove]

I must say thank you Mexico to sending air forces to help flight the fire and don't give a frick about the president

[sorennilsson]

The forest absorbs enormus amount of water during the rains. No forest will result in enormus floodings, this will lead to erosion. The end result will be poverty.

[Ryanlexz]

The irony when marcon can't even slove the yellow yest problem😂😂😂

[MahirTAN]

Such a stupid people out there ? What do they think about having money without earth 🌏?

[Simi]

the Russian Taiga is on fire since months and zero Fucks have been given...it should also be addressed

[gabs]

Hey France !

"The" Amazon Fund "was created during the Lula administration to raise funds to be used to combat deforestation. The main donor, with 93.8% of the amount, is Norway. The same Norway whose government is a majority partner of HYDRO MINERATOR, which operates in the Amazon region, responds to more than TWO THOUSAND PROCEEDINGS for environmental crimes (including a toxic mud leak in the state of Pará) and owes more than 14 MILLION fines to the Brazilian government. just a "payment book" for SALE OF NATIONAL WEALTH, camouflaged with the cloak of progressive preservationism. First, it is worth remembering that the land use law in the Amazon region is one of the most restrictive on the planet. While in the South and Southeast the property must maintain 20% of native forest, in the north the requirement is 80%, that is, a 100 hectare property can only cultivate 20. . So we need food). That's exactly the discussion about INPE's data. When the agency released that preview, it referred to TOTAL DEFORESTATION, verified by satellite images. It is therefore necessary to confirm that this deforestation is REALLY ILLEGAL. No, only arable areas provided for in the law. The premature disclosure was TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE and the president is right to question them. A public body, more than any other, must have a COMMITMENT TO THE TRUTH. The European chilique, with the requirement of government confirmation, is just a mambembe theater. It has to be VERY INNOCENT to believe that Europe, which has devastated almost all of its native vegetation, is concerned about deforestation in the Amazon, which in 519 years was only 8%. Yes, little friend ecochato, 92% of the forest is ABSOLUTELY INTACT, since the discovery. What matters to the gringos is what is UNDER SOIL. It is the exploitation of BILLIONS of DOLLARS in natural resources within the Brazilian territory. EXACTLY as does "benevolent" Norway with its criminal mining company. If they were worried about trees, with all the money spent here, they would have reforested half the old continent. What, we know, is not the case. ECOLOGY THING NONE. Their problem with Bolsonaro is ECONOMY. The president took the "for sale" sign from our rainforest, and the "owners of the world, " who had auctioned off their wealth for years, became pissed off. Only that. Just it! "Men when not forced to fight for necessity, fight for ambition." (MAQUIAVEL, Nicholas) "Text by Felipe Fiamenghi - 14/08/2019 Felipe Fiamenghi II

[LuisFelipeCardozo]

Macron has to concern about the French forests not Brazilian's. He has to care about his country. Brazil's things matters only to Itself.
Amazonia is not world heritage, It is ours.

[erfanatic]

Europe stay out of Brazil. Bolsanaro better leader then Micron.

[michaelsquires]

Don't worry folks "the second coming " will wave his hand and put the fires out.

[davidcarter]

France has never lost its desire to rule the world despite its past failures militarily and its appalling record as a colonial power (of which Haiti was but the worst example).

the Amazon is ours! And she had never ceased to be!

[muramasa]

When were choking on our own air and the world burning, no matter how much money/power u have wont matter.

[leraisonandtheseason]

Macron should have short memory about environment. Can anyone record him French Polynesia?

[cherylsibson]

I don't understand why countries aren't banning together dealing with this massive fire? totally bizarre!

[simonm]

People should forget greed and save Environment
Why will your children live after total destruction of environment.

[roskodraw]

Couldn't Macron put out the fire in Notre Dame Cathedral and come to talk about the Amazon?