states india: Under President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil is seeing unprecedented deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, which plays a vital role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere among other things, according to The Japan Times. Unless global leaders can engineer a reversal of climate change, little else will matter, especially for island countries like Japan with long coastlines and fragile environments. ; Most immediately, following the G7's pitifully small pledge of 22 million for emergency aid for the Amazon, the global community should press for a change of course on the environment in Brazil. CO2 emissions, the main source of man-made global warming, continues to rise in the top three emitters China, the United States and India while they fell in Japan, which is ranked 5th. The good news is that Brazil has shown capable of big social transformations as with a far-reaching ethanol fuel program from the 1970s and the world's biggest social protection program since the 2000s. The entry point for a popular pushback is that Bolsonaro was elected, much like U.S. President Donald Trump, on the false premise that reckless deregulation of the environment will boost economic growth. But now Brazilians must offset the efforts of their president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has been promoting deforestation to benefit mining, logging and cattle ranching.
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