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Good Enough for You, But Not Me

As is typical for the humorless and joyless left, jokes fly way over their head. "It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world." Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, in a spectacular Brazilian jiujitsu turnaround , threw back the onus to the leftist environmental scare-mongers by offering some advice to those who would put the health of trees over the raising of a large proportion of his country out of poverty, a problem which has historically plagued Brazil. Roughly 26.5% of the population was living under the poverty line in 2017, according to the World Bank. Sure, it is perfectly reasonable to be concerned over rapid deforestation of this precious natural resource, most of which has occurred long before Bolsonaro had been in power, but for Western European powers to lecture the Brazilian President while at the same time feeding their ravenous appetite for Amazoni