The fact that the US, the second-largest contributor to climate change, is not going to sign on to climate agreements and take action on climate change helps fuel Bolsonaro’s argument: ‘Then why should Brazil?’ It gives Bolsonaro the sense that Brazil doesn’t have to sacrifice its own economic benefits for the rest of the world; that the handling of the Amazon is really Brazil’s decision alone.
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