The far-right leader campaigned on promises to jump-start Brazil’s economy, in part by deregulating mining and other industries.
Electing this sort of anti-government leader means there will be no new regulation. Instead, all their energy will go into deflecting blame, scapegoating others, and spinning the problem as the fault of existing regulation. They don’t represent people, they represent the owners, the oligarchs, and the cartels – they just pantomime concern to maintain the pretense that democracy still exists, in order to keep people from doing something about their family members getting buried in mud.
The far-right leader campaigned on promises to jump-start Brazil’s economy, in part by deregulating mining and other industries.
Environmental groups and activists said the latest spill underscored the lack of environmental regulation in Brazil, and many promised to fight any further deregulation
There you have it. The economy won’t be "jumpstarted’ but the increase in dead Brazilians will rise. If only because the average peasant doesn’t have an alternative to industries they can work in. They take what their wealthy overlords will provide for them.
Dodge noted there are 600 mines in the state of Minas Gerais alone that are classified as being at risk of rupture.
Not to worry; everything will be fine. Back to work.
Huge Tragedy.
Thoughts and prayers, of course, and I really do feel sorry for those families who have lost their loved ones, but I also want to call out that this is the vision that Republicans have for the U.S. Those “job-killing regulations” they are trying to destroy are there for a reason, so that these disasters don’t occur.