mo4ch:>Brazil rejects Macron’s money for fighting Amazon fires, points to Notre Dame fail as evidence | Mo4ch News

Brazil has turned down the G7 countries’ offer of aid in combating the massive Amazon rainforest fires, suggesting that the funds would be better used to plant trees in Europe and slamming French President Macron’s “colonialism.”“We appreciate [the offer], but maybe those resources would be put to better use reforesting Europe,” President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni told Globo, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron - who insisted the rainforest fires be a central issue at Biarritz - was motivated by “colonialism and imperialism.”Also on rt.comBolsonaro & Macron trade insults as Amazon burns“Macron can’t even prevent a foreseeable fire in a church that is a world heritage site,” Lorenzoni zinged. “What does he want to teach our country? He has plenty to take care of at home and in the French colonies.”The G7 countries - France, US, UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan - had pledged $22 million to buy additional firefighting planes to fight the blazes afte…