Resistance to the 'environmental sect' is a cornerstone of Bolsonaro's rule

Brazil's populist president shows no sign of changing his policies on the climate crisis despite a backlash at home and abroadIt is not just meat companies in Brazil that are under pressure over rising deforestation and widespread fires in the Amazon. The government has been forced to react after international investors and CEOs of Brazilian companies have protested, and now its own environmental officials have joined the chorus.But its response is hobbled by a deep distrust of global heating, fed by a far-right ideology reluctant to admit that the climate emergency has a human cause. Continue reading...