Bolsonaro's Choice For Agriculture Sees Opportunity For Legal Logging In The Amazon

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Nabhan Garcia also says that concern over climate change is exaggerated and doesn't want to dialogue with the Landless Workers Movement

Eduardo Scolese
SÃO PAULO
A friend of Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and under consideration for the Ministry of Agriculture if the candidate wins the election, Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, 60, advocates for the merging of the department with the ministries of Agrarian Development and Environment, in order to, as he says, do away with an "ideological mess" in environmental issues.

"There's this fantasy, this legend, that in Brazil, the person who damages the environment is the farmer. It's the opposite," says Nabhan, who presides the UDR (the acronym for Democratic Association of Ruralists) and Bolsonaro's advisor in agriculture matters.

Like the candidate, Nabhan favors Brazil leaving the Paris Agreement and thinks there is a "fine industry" from the part of environmental inspectors. He also thinks that there is "a lot of myth" surrounding climate change.

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