Brazil will hold S. American meeting on Amazon wildfires

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Note how saving the envmt cannot be done alone sometimes and need the assistance of other nations....but politics can sometimes get in the way of doing what is right and necessary for Mother Nature...

sovereignty of the nations that share the Amazon had to be respected, while Mr Bolsonaro said Brazil's sovereignty had "no price, not even US$20 trillion".

welcomed international aid and in recent days has stepped up efforts, including hiring the world's largest firefighting aircraft, the Boeing SuperTanker 747, from the United States.

Some of the blazes are down to natural causes ... but most are started deliberately by farmers clearing land for agriculture. "If tropical dense forests are affected by forest fires, they need many, many years to regroup. It will alter the climate, the local climate, the national climate and the regional climate. It will also have an influence on the global climate,

Qns:

1. ‘In the global village we inhabit, there is no justification for national boundaries.’ How far do you agree? (Cam. 2018)

2. Assess the view that attempts to control climate change can never be truly effective. (Cam. 2017)