.OfficialSting is the latest musician raising awareness about the AmazonRainforest fires
during the G7 summit after Bolsonaro posted a sarcastic comment mocking the French president's wife on Facebook. For a week, as the #PrayForTheAmazon tag has gained steam and a number of celebrities and public figures have urged more action to put out the fires, Bolsonaro has"This is no place for the outdated bromides of nationalism in a world where we all breathe the same air and where we will all suffer the consequences of this wilful negligence," Sting wrote.
The singer appealed to the Brazilian government to change the policies that have opened up the rainforest to exploitation by farmers and ranchers who have been cutting down trees and burning land. "Nationalist rhetoric has effectively ignited the flames which threaten to engulf the most important living laboratory on the planet. Countless species are in danger of immediate extinction," the singer wrote.
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