在亚马逊雨林火灾爆发数量激增的数据成为全球头条新闻后，抗议者走上了包括伦敦、巴黎、苏黎世、柏林、马德里和米兰在内的几个欧洲城市巴西大使馆和领事馆外的街道。
人们越来越担心巴西总统贾伊尔·博尔索纳罗及其政府表现出的漠不关心批评家说这鼓励了导致雨林破坏的活动。
在巴黎，巴西大使馆外的抗议者高喊口号，并举着标语，上面写着“Bolsonaro论坛”，葡萄牙语意思是“Bolsonaro Out”，路透社报道。
巴西国家空间研究所(INPE)最近发布的数据显示，与2018年同期相比，巴西的火灾爆发增加了83%。据路透社报道，这是该机构自2013年开始收集此类数据以来的最高火灾数量。
INPE表示，今年1月至8月期间，已经确认巴西发生了72，000多起火灾——其中一半以上发生在亚马逊地区。这远远超过了2018年全年记录的大约4万人。
抗议发生在法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙呼吁世界领导人在即将到来的七国集团峰会之前将亚马逊雨林火灾问题推到议程的首位之后。
昨天，Macron发布了一条推文，称火灾是“国际危机”
“我们的房子着火了。字面上，”马克龙在推特上说。"七国集团峰会的成员们，让我们在两天后讨论这个紧急情况！"
德国总理安格拉·默克尔同意这些观点，称这是一个“紧急情况”，应该在本周末法国峰会上讨论。
然而，波索纳罗回击了马克龙，指责他的法国对手“耸人听闻的语调”卫报报道。
“我感到遗憾的是，马克龙总统试图利用巴西国内的问题和其他亚马逊国家的利益来谋取个人政治利益，”博索纳罗在推特上写道。
“巴西政府仍然愿意在客观数据和相互尊重的基础上进行对话，”他在第二篇文章中写道。“法国总统建议在七国集团(G7)中讨论亚马逊问题，不要让该地区的国家参与进来，这让人回想起21世纪不可接受的殖民主义心态。”
最新数据出炉之际，国际社会对博尔索纳罗政府的不作为表示强烈抗议。
上个月，波尔索纳罗批评了INPE收集的数据，这些数据表明最近森林砍伐率大幅上升。值得注意的是，数据显示，今年7月，与2018年同期相比，森林砍伐增加了近300%。
总统指责该机构编造了可能损害该国贸易谈判的“谎言”，随后解雇了该机构的负责人，由一名军事官员代替他。
环境保护主义者越来越关心他的政府，指责政府鼓励砍伐森林，鼓励那些想利用森林获取商业利益的人。
亚马逊的火灾被用作为农业清理土地的一种技术——除了采矿和掠夺土地之外，这也是亚马逊森林砍伐的最大驱动力。这意味着火灾是森林砍伐的结果。
雨林行动网络的发言人劳雷尔·萨瑟林说:“可以公平地说，这些火灾的规模和范围在现代史上是前所未有的，它们代表了最高级别的全球紧急情况。”新闻周刊。“这些火灾发生在不自然燃烧的热带森林中，它们是人们故意纵火的，主要是为了清理土地用于农业。”
萨瑟林说:“为这些火灾创造条件的背景是快速加速的气候危机和巴西总统波尔索纳罗公开反对的政策的结合，气候危机正在造成越来越大、越来越长的干旱，目前也加剧了北极的火灾，巴西总统波尔索纳罗已经解除了环境法规，打开了洪水闸门，大幅度增加了砍伐森林、非法侵占土地和用火清理土地的行为。”。
灭绝叛乱的支持者于2019年8月23日在英国伦敦的巴西大使馆外抗议。
AMAZON RAINFOREST FIRES: PROTESTERS HIT STREETS OF LONDON, PARIS AND OTHER WORLD CITIES TO BLAST BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO
Protesters have taken to the streets outside Brazilian embassies and consulates in several European cities—including London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Madrid and Milan—after data revealing a spike in the number of fire outbreaks in the Amazon rainforest made headlines around the world.
Concern is growing over the apparent lack of concern shown by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration—which critics say is encouraging activities that lead to the destruction of the rainforest.
In Paris, protesters outside the Brazilian embassy were chanting and carrying signs with messages such as "Fora Bolsonaro," meaning "Bolsonaro Out" in Portuguese, Reuters reported.
Recently released figures from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) showed an 83 percent increase in fire outbreaks in Brazil in comparison to the same period in 2018. This represents the highest number of blazes since the agency began collecting such data in 2013, Reuters reported.
The INPE says it has identified more than 72,000 fires in Brazil between January and August this year—more than half of which occurred in the Amazon region. That's comfortably more than the roughly 40,000 recorded in the entirety of 2018.
The protests come after French President Emmanuel Macron called on world leaders to push the issue of fires in the Amazon rainforest to the top of the agenda ahead of the upcoming G7 summit.
Yesterday, Macron posted a tweet that described the fires as an "international crisis."
"Our house is burning. Literally," Macron said in his tweet. "Members of the G7 Summit, let's discuss this emergency first order in two days!"
German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with these sentiments, describing the situation as an "acute emergency" that should be discussed at the summit in France this weekend.
However, Bolsonaro hit back at Macron, scalding his French counterpart for what he described as a "sensationalist tone," The Guardian reported.
"I regret that president Macron seeks to take advantage of what is a domestic Brazilian issue and of other Amazonian countries for personal political gain," Bolsonaro tweeted.
"The Brazilian Government remains open to dialogue, based on objective data and mutual respect," he wrote in a second post. "The French president's suggestion that Amazonian matters be discussed at the G7 without the involvement of countries of the region recalls the colonialist mindset that is unacceptable in the 21st century."
The latest figures come amid international outcry over the inaction of Bolsonaro's administration.
Last month, Bolsonaro criticized data collected by INPE, which indicated that there had been a significant rise in deforestation rates recently. Notably, the figures showed that in July this year, deforestation had increased nearly 300 percent in comparison to the same month in 2018.
The president accused the agency of making up "lies" that could hurt the country's trade talks and subsequently fired its chief, replacing him with a military official.
Environmentalists are becoming increasingly concerned with his administration, accusing the government of encouraging deforestation and emboldening those who want to exploit the forest for commercial gain.
Fire in the Amazon is used as a technique to clear land for agriculture—the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon, alongside mining and land-grabbing. This means that fire is a result of deforestation.
"It is fair to say that the scale and scope of these fires are unprecedented in modern history and they represent a planetary emergency of the highest order," Laurel Sutherlin, a spokesperson from the Rainforest Action Network, told Newsweek. "These fires are occurring in tropical forests that do not naturally burn and they were set intentionally by people, mostly with the intent to clear land for agriculture."
"The context that set the conditions for these fires is a combination of the rapidly accelerating climate crisis, which is causing bigger and longer droughts and contributing to fires in the Arctic currently as well, and the overtly antagonistic policies of Brazil's president Bolsonaro, who has lifted environmental regulations and opened the flood gates to greatly increased deforestation, illegal land grabbing and the use of fire to clear land," Sutherlin said.
Extinction Rebellion supporters protest outside the Brazilian Embassy on August 23, 2019 in London, England.
