The Canadian Prime Minister said at a press conference: "We can pretend that the situation in the Amazon is simply part of the natural cycle, but that is not exactly what is happening," he said.
"The invoice of human activity and extreme weather conditions on our communities, environment, health and our world will continue to increase unless we take decisive action in the framework of the fight against climate change," said Trudeau, de agreement with the Russian news service Sputnik.
This aid, said Trudeau, is not part of the one agreed upon at the summit of the Group of Seven, but adds to that committed by the leaders gathered in Biarritz, which includes $ 20 million in emergency aid and reforestation.
According to data from the Space Research Institute of Brazil (INPE), so far this year, more than 75 thousand sources of fire were detected in the Amazon, fires have increased 85 percent more compared to the same period of 2018.
On August 22, the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) urged the governments of the Amazonian countries, especially Brazil and Bolivia, and the entire international community to "take serious measures to save the lungs of the world."
Although fires are common in the Amazon during the dry season, like the current one, a good part of them have been produced by farmers and have dispersed strongly as a result of deforestation, until reaching uninhabited areas.
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