In three days it expanded until it forced the global media to report on it. It didn't before, because fires like this happen every year, so it was considered just ordinary fact.
I saw some Instagram posts which suggest that some big influencers were DMed with the story from local activists, and then influencers started copying eachother and spreading it further.
I think it's the first time a thing started on Instagram became G7 agenda.
I didn't have any news before because the current brazilian government is negligent and there are some interest in not making a big allarm over the issue locally because of the consequences on economy (agribusiness related and because of the EU-MERCOSUL agreement). But the fire is more severe than usual (about 80% more fire focus than last year), so much more severe than usual that the smoke reached the Southeast part of the country and one day the afternoon became night in São Paulo because of it and that never happened before...
The most alarming of all it is that the environment minister had take many actions that lead to this situation (cut money from a fund that worked to prevent fire, had actively work to disrupt environmental government organizations, among other things). The president also, lost a lot of money from the Amazon fund and now it's saying there is no money to put the fire out... He also fired the head of a scientific institute (INPE) that report that deforestation had increase and put someone that denies gobal warming in his place... A totally irresponsable fool...only now, with all this (economical) pressure he started to take some action to diminish the fire. Beside there are a lot of bills being discussed in the Congress to free for economical exploration indigenous reserves... It is a very alarming situation for the environment here in Brazil....
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadIn three days it expanded until it forced the global media to report on it. It didn't before, because fires like this happen every year, so it was considered just ordinary fact.
I saw some Instagram posts which suggest that some big influencers were DMed with the story from local activists, and then influencers started copying eachother and spreading it further.
I think it's the first time a thing started on Instagram became G7 agenda.
The most alarming of all it is that the environment minister had take many actions that lead to this situation (cut money from a fund that worked to prevent fire, had actively work to disrupt environmental government organizations, among other things). The president also, lost a lot of money from the Amazon fund and now it's saying there is no money to put the fire out... He also fired the head of a scientific institute (INPE) that report that deforestation had increase and put someone that denies gobal warming in his place... A totally irresponsable fool...only now, with all this (economical) pressure he started to take some action to diminish the fire. Beside there are a lot of bills being discussed in the Congress to free for economical exploration indigenous reserves... It is a very alarming situation for the environment here in Brazil....