On the domestic front, Bolsonaro rewarded powerful ultra-conservative evangelicals, who were largely responsible for his election, by installing an anti-abortion evangelical preacher as head of a new ministry overseeing Brazilian women, families, human rights and indigenous communities.īolsonaro campaigned as a law and order candidate, but his support of police use of brutal force and bullets against alleged drug traffickers accounts for much of the violence. Vowing to roll back environmental protections and make it easier to destroy the world’s biggest rainforest, Bolsonaro cancelled plans to host key UN climate talks next year and appointed a foreign minister who believes climate change is a Marxist plot. Nothing Is Going To Rain On His Parade, Especially Not A Forest: Yesterday was the day progressive Brazilians had been dreading: the inauguration of new president and far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.” – Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves “It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness.” – Hedonic treadmill definition in Wikipedia “The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.
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