Brazil’s new president worries climate scientists Buda Mendes/Getty Images
It is being described as a catastrophe for the planet. The far-right winner of Brazil鈥檚 presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, looks likely to further weaken protections for the Amazon rainforest and make the goal of limiting global warming to under 2掳C even harder to achieve.
鈥淚f he carries through on his rhetoric we can expect tribal genocide, torture of dissidents, and climate-altering destruction of the Amazon forest,鈥 , who studies the rainforest. 鈥淭his is a nightmare scenario.鈥
Bolsonaro has set out few specific…
