Brazil’s New President May Tear Up Paris Agreement

Time to end the scam!

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

The next domino could be about to fall in the climate wall!

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/28/brazils-right-wing-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-sweeps-election/

Bolsonaro was quite clear in the run up to the election, that he would look to take Brazil out of the Paris Agreement, as Huff Post reminded us the other week:

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The rise of far-right authoritarian Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential race has caused concerns about what he could mean for the health of the world’s fourth-largest democracy and its most marginalized communities ― especially black Brazilians, the indigenous, women and LGBTQ people who are the targets of his most violent rhetoric.

But a Bolsonaro victory, which polls suggest is almost assured on Oct. 28, would also have a major global implication: It could spell doom for the worldwide fight against climate change.

Few countries are more important to stemming climate change than Brazil, which is home to the Amazon rainforest and…

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