Fascism is synonymous with backsliding and barbarism.
December 20, 2019 9:56 AM   Subscribe

On 1 January Jair Messias Bolsonaro will have been President of Brazil for a year.
2019: the year my worst nightmares came true, a reflection, plus a lot more from OHCHR and of course Deforestation and Evangelicals.
posted by adamvasco (3 comments total) 14 users marked this as a favorite
 
WaPo: Top scientists warn of an Amazon ‘tipping point'
“The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we,” Thomas Lovejoy of George Mason University and Carlos Nobre of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, both of whom have studied the world’s largest rainforest for decades, wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Advances. “Today, we stand exactly in a moment of destiny: The tipping point is here, it is now.”
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 11:20 AM on December 20, 2019 [1 favorite]


There will always be hope because fascism always dies by a mix of alienating allies and underestimating its adversaries out of sheer hubris. Fascism may always go into stasis when defeated but when it ascends it always operates on borrowed time.

How many will be harmed in the mean time? That is the question. As times get darker we must look out for each other and the most vulnerable.
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 7:19 PM on December 20, 2019


The tipping point is here, it is now,’ top Amazon scientists warn.
posted by adamvasco at 12:58 PM on December 21, 2019


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