August 26, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/26/urgent-action-required-against-environmental-pirates/
There is a new type of pirate on the
international scene. These are not the swashbuckling brigands of yore but
national leaders who are intent on plundering and pillaging the world’s
most-environmentally sensitive resources. From the Amazon rainforest, described
as the “lungs of the Earth” because it provides 20 percent of our planet’s
oxygen, to Greenland and the Antarctic, unscrupulous and ignorant leaders are
placing the entire planet in jeopardy. These leaders include Donald Trump and
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, who fancies himself as the “Tropical Trump.” In
rejecting scientific methods of measuring and tracking the adverse effects of
climate change, political leaders like Trump, Bolsonaro, Philippines President
Rodrigo Duterte, and others are practicing a form of epistemological nihilism,
which posits that environmental and climatic science proving the effects of
cascading man-made climate change are untrue.
It is a close race to determine
whether Trump or Bolsonaro are having the greatest negative impact on Earth’s
climate. Although both reject sound scientific methodology, Bolsonaro slightly
edges out Trump due to the fact that the “intellectual” guru for Bolsonaro, a
far-right Brazilian “end-times” evangelical “Christian,” is a Virginia-based
conspiracy monger named Olavo de Carvalho. Among his other fanciful notions,
Carvalho entertains the idea that the Earth is not a sphere but flat.
As wildfires of biblical proportions
plague Alaska, Siberia, and the Amazon Basin, unprecedented heat waves hit
Europe, and the Greenland Ice Sheet and Western Antarctica melt as Trump
figures out how to annex Greenland from
