Just a Few Foreign Trees

Thanks to the Boris Johnson of the southern hemisphere, the Brazilian Amazon is being cleared at a faster rate than ever previously recorded, and will soon be irreversibly damaged. Mining companies and cattle-ranchers may benefit should the rainforest be transformed into savannah, but the consequences for those indiscreet enough to depend on the global climate for survival could be less fortunate. In a tragic echo of Europe's self-destructive intransigence over British independence, there is even some doubt as to whether the beastly Euro-wogs will allow the Brazilian government to sign up to a trade deal should Brazil refuses to keep to the Paris climate agreement. On a positive note, Britain's leading liberal newspaper regards the story as purely Brazil news, rather than as anything that might justifiably obtrude itself upon the front page.