Environment minister suggests criminal actions behind spike in wildfires closing schools and grounding flights
Brazil’s environment minister has declared her country “at war” with fire after a historic surge in blazes – from the depths of the Amazon to the rural south-east – cloaked Brasília and São Paulo with smoke, grounded flights and forced schools to close.
Referring to the situation in São Paulo, Marina Silva, a veteran environmentalist, told reporters: “In virtually two days, various municipalities are burning at the same time. This isn’t part of our experience curve in all these years we’re been working with fire. “Brazil is ablaze,” said Cristiane Mazzetti, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace Brasil, who said the country was trapped in “a vicious cycle of burning”. “At the same time that wildfires produce greenhouse gases and exacerbate changes to the climate which cause climate extremes such as extreme prolonged droughts, so too do these severe and prolonged droughts cause the intensification of forest fires.
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