Would you support US military action to save the Amazon? [View all]

[zaj]

Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2019, 10:19 AM - Edit history (2)

Sounds like Brazil has their own mini-Trump. Given this framing of the problem with the fires in the Amazon, and a sort of crazy man running things there, it's not hard to imagine a crisis.

Pretend your favorite Dem was President and felt compelled to send in American troops to pull a coup in Brazil and seize control of the problem.

[Edit #1 for clarification: Because Brazil isn't accepting help because they elected a President who is a climate change denying, science ignoring, burn-it down crazy man.

So military intervention would be required first in order to protect any international response. And replacing the crazy man would be required to keep him from trying it again.

Edit #2: By asking that you assume it's your favored candidate taking this step, you can choose to imagine they have tried everything they thought feasible before taking this step.

I'll leave those details to you and your faith in that person.]

How would you react?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212406218

The Amazon Fires Are More Dangerous Than WMDs
One person shouldn’t have the power to set policies that doom the rest of humanity’s shot at mitigating rising temperatures.
10:35 AM ET
Franklin Foer


When Jair Bolosonaro won Brazil’s presidential election last year, having run on a platform of deforestation, David Wallace-Wells asked, “How much damage can one person do to the planet?” Bolsonaro didn’t pour lighter fluid to ignite the flames now ravishing the Amazon, but with his policies and rhetoric, he might as well have. The destruction he inspired—and allowed to rage with his days of stubborn unwillingness to douse the flames— has placed the planet at a hinge moment in its ecological history. Unfortunately, the planet doesn’t have a clue about how it should respond.

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