mo4ch:>Bolsonaro & Macron trade insults as Amazon burns | Mo4ch News

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have escalated their war of words over the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest. This time, the insults got personal.After posting a tweet last week declaring “our house is burning,” French President Emmanuel Macron promised to put the wildfires ripping through the Amazon at the top of the agenda of the weekend’s G7 summit in Biarritz. The French leader accused Bolsonaro’s pro-industry policies of exacerbating the blazes, which are started every year by farmers to clear land for grazing and replanting, and claimed Bolsonaro had lied to him earlier this year about his efforts to combat climate change.Also on rt.comMacron posts Amazon fire photo that’s not from this year, gets torched by Brazil’s BolsonaroOn Monday, Macron announced that the G7 had agreed on giving $22 million in funding to an international “alliance” to protect the rainforest, and offered to deploy the French military to contain the infe…