The Amazon is on fire, but Brazil’s president calls it a ‘lie’

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie”, despite data produced by his own government showing that thousands of fires are surging across the region.Bolsonaro last year similarly denied a spike in fires that provoked a global outcry, with the right-wing populist trading barbs with French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders.The president’s comments on Tuesday come even as witnesses in the remote…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3097014/amazon-fire-brazils-president-calls-it-lie