Brazil's Right to Burn the Amazon is not a Moral Right

   Where there is the right to own, there is the right to ruin. I think of Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro. "Brazilian sovereignty is not negotiable," he says, leaving it clear that it is Brazil's decision as to what becomes of the Amazon. Other countries do what they will with their forests, why should Brazil not be able to do as it will with its forests?
   As you burn, you create gases contributing to global warming. Raze the earth, and say that the earth is yours.
   Where there is the right to own, there is the right to ruin? You certainly have the power. But, if we say you have the right to ruin the earth, make that a legal right, not a moral one.

(Note: A sentence saying 20 percent of the world's oxygen comes from the Amazon was deleted 8/31/19 upon reading a National Geographic article saying that is not true.)

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