Well, well, looks like they re-opened the politic part of the forum. Cool.
Well, well, well, am I the only brazilian in the forum? Well, I am brazilian so I got stuff to tell. Where do I start, the info or my feelings? Well, resume of the info then. Actually, this is a long post, just be advised.
The graphic in NY Times in the post right before mine shows a good infographic. Left and right brazilian wings loves manipulating data and spreading distorted news in ways that everything seems confusing, but, well, I had to thank a good you tuber called "pirula" and one news or another for clarification. The thing is, since the governemnt started to watch the whole amazon through sattelites in the end of the last military brazilian dictatorship in 1988, we had 2 big "waves" of deforestation and this very likely going to be the 3rd one (we can say the 3rd one already started). The 1st wave came from a more or less conservative/right governemnt in the middle 90´s. The 2nd wave came from a progressive/leftist government that actually claimed to care. This 3rd wave is come from the extreme right goverment. So, its either the left and the right that destroys the forest in Brazil.
Since there is a lot of data confusion (thanks to the insane manipulation brazil has daily) and confusing statements, all I know is that 20-40% of the Amazon forest is already gone. Thats actually good news, since it is certain that more of the half of the forest is still there/here. It is not irreversible and it is not beyond saving!
What is happening right now is not a full amazon forest apocalipse like some are saying (these exploding news comes from the left manipulation side), Amazon is certainly not going to be entirely burned this year and not in the next 2-3 years even if this rate continues its patterns. However, as I said before, this is the 3rd wave, and if things continue like that for 2 years, and if we have a 4th wave, than the amazon will be gone. If these burning continues for several years, it will be the Amazon end for sure. However, I dont know how many years it would be necessary.
I know I am being confusing a little, but let me try to clear it out with another point of view. Leftist manipulators are cutting the burning data in 5-7 years, so, compared to the last 5-7 years, Amazon burning and deforestation almost double the rate and that is still increasing. However, the right-wing manipulators are opening the data in a 15-20 year rate, and comparing to the middle 00´s 2nd big wave of deforestation, specially in 2003-2006 years, and comparing to that the rate is not much. So, what is actually is happening is that the deforestation and the Amazon issues started being solved thanks to internal efforts and external support in the ending of 2000´s. And from more or less 2009 the deforestation was getting in-control (not perfect but more or less fine), and that held steady until last year. And now we are back to very high deforestation again, but this is the first year.
I dont know if you guys are aware of climate dynamics. The rainy period in brazil is settled in the beggining of the year, its more or less starts in october or november and it ends in june/july. Most of the fires happens and endures in the middle-end of the year, it happens that most deforestation happens on the 2nd semester and not in the 1st one. By dynamics, this should get better in the beggining of 2020.
Now that I hope I clarifided that the Amazon is not completely on fire but things are far from being good (sorry for not being clear, you have to notice that I read news from "its all on fire" to "its a lie, everything is just normal and fine" and I had to try to make sense of it, which is not easy), time to go to the other subject related, the Brazilians president. Since we are on the MBTI forum, it is good to point out that most brazilians, beside left or right, agrees that Bolsonaro is either ESTJ or ESTP, with majority agreeing by him being ESTJ (me included). Maybe Ill post in MBTI around the world later, but it is good to point that the most common type in Brazil is ESTJ (20-25% as far as I remember), following ISTJ (13-18%) and then ENTJ (10-13%). Yeah, no ESFP, ESFP is relatively rare here (I think its 2-4%). If you think that brazilians are that happy type of persons, relaxed and all, think again, because thats what people here want you foreigns to believe (this is not realistic). The brazilian lazyness is unproven on statistics, the brazilians just works in average compared to world, the dynamics here is that there are more days off than world´s average but there are more week-hours than compared to the world. But Brazilian right wing and specially enterpreneurs still spread this idea that the brazilians are lazy, and if we start to think about its these common types that should be doing that spread, so they can make people work more and they complain more about them. I could go on, but, well, back on this specific ESTJ president and the environment.
You know these organizations that protects the enviroment without being related to government? The ones that claims to protect the forest, save the forest, and all that stuff? This is no fake news: Bolsonaro firstly blamed them for firing the amazon. His "logic": "They hate me, they are putting the fires in the forest so they will make my goverment unstable". Well, it makes so much sense that I am going to cry. There is more. When the institute that watches the forest by sattelite (INPE) published the data that alerted, leading it to the public by the governemnt principle of publicity, the president had said that they should first had asked him and his environment minister before doing so. And for that, he fired the INPE directors without even knowing who he was. He fired him just because he released data that was against his government (it is not his first time doing these kind of things, I think this is the 3rd time and he has been in goverment for only 8 months). Wait, wait there is even more. The president actually suports the deforestation in the name of progress, although as I said a week ago to a friend of mine: "This goverment is doing quite a miracle... Exploring the enviroment should lead to more wealth since money is made from the woods, the exploring, etc... They are destroying the enviroment a lot in this governemnt and yet the GDP per capita growth is getting from very slow to zero this year". There was one movement a month or two ago, where the farmers that Bolsonaro supported made a "fire day", where they anonymously started several fires along a road, some claimed that this was actually a tribute to Bolsonaro. No, this is no joke, its real. There is more.. Bolsonaro claims that brazil lacks money to protect, and yet he is blocking external money from coming in. He poses as a nationalist at day... and at night he supports the most powerful minister (Paulo Guedes) to sell brazilian state companies that explores and profits from oil,mining and natural resources, plus government banks, to foreign companies and even states. What actually happens is that Bolsonaro is blocking some european resources in the name of that, when he stated in his campaign that he had plans to explore the Amazon togheter with the US, even stating that the Brazilians cant take care of Amazon but USA and Trump can (and if you elect a politic that is not like Trump and more like, I dont know, Obama?). And he didnt changed his mind, he advanced towards that. Wait, there is still more, last one I promise because this is getting tiring. You know when you do speeding and got a traffic ticket? Well, the name of that is what, fine? Well I stick as fine. The president was got two enviroment fines in the past, and he actually hates the Brazilian environment agency that take care of nature and the native people (by the natives I mean the people who lived here before european arrives the american continent) (IBAMA, thats the name). He would shut off that agency if he could, thats sure. He even tried to merge the Ministry of Enviroment with the Ministry of Agriculture. He put, for IBAMA, a chief that dislikes the native people and is one of these big farmers that just dont care.
Although I already mentioned only the parts related to the enviroment, I think you guys already noticed that Trump is sweet when compared to this guy.
And lastly... 2 weeks after the fires got hard, about a week or two ago, Sao Paulo (that means "Saint Paul" in portuguese), the major brazilian city, and some other citys in the south, had an interesting, although scary, phenomenon. The day turned into night, like in the biblian apocalipse. No kidding, it happened in a day and partially in another day. That was enough to scare brazilians and move even bolsonaro supporters towards enviroment? Of course not! Actually, some religious Bolsonaro supporters thinks that these are end of the times is coming and that now, more than ever, people should be supporting Bolsonaro (Bolsonaro is the Messiah A in my post at the mistyped person thread), and that the relationship from this phenomenon with the forest fires was a lie created by the left wing to take Bolsonaro, the only hope in Brazil, out of the goverment. Well, getting back to sanity, unless in very south, Brazil does not have these winters that makes the day to last 6 or 8 hours, so, in the point of brazilian capital night never arrives before 18:00-18:15 PM, and in Sao Paulo, it doesnt before 17-18 PM. It happened that, at 14-16 PM, it was already some sort of night, with all car lights and building lights on. Dark day. And, to end the post, here are the pictures, and I will post later about my feelings towards this..
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And just to add... First comment I saw on a page while gathering these pictures... "É... A fumaça saiu da Amazônia e pensou: vamos direto e parar só sobre SP. É cada uma.." (rapid translation... "Yeah... the smokes got out of the Amazon and thought to themselves: Lets go straight to SP.", SP means São Paulo and I the last phrase is difficult to translate but doesnt change the text much).