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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jonathan Watts

Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners

Flavio Bolsonaro raises a microphone, hand on chest, flanked by applauding men at a rally
Flavio Bolsonaro, centre, is in pole position to win the election runoff on 25 October against Brazil’s incumbent president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Photograph: Sérgio Lima/AFP/Getty

More fire, more ash, more crime, more death. And a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That is the prospect for the Amazon rainforest for at least the next four years if Flávio Bolsonaro holds on to the lead he established this week in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election.

This appears to be of far more concern to the outside world than to voters in Latin America’s biggest, richest and most biodiverse nation.

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