The leftist media, aka “fake news,” is at it again. This time going after the Brazilian Trump, Jair Bolsonaro.

The recent fires in the Amazonian rain forest have had critics of Bolsonaro clamoring to lay blame on him — if not for the fires themselves for the response to them. He has, in turn, blamed critics for starting the fires in an effort to discredit and topple his government. When asked about the fires he has responded with; “The fire was started, it seemed, in strategic locations,” he told reporters this week. “There are images of the entire Amazon. How can that be? Everything indicates that people went there to film and then to set fires. That is my feeling.”

The hoopla stateside concerning the fires, in the all too predictable fashion of the legacy media, is centered on global warming, I mean, um, climate change or whatever ecological conspiracy Al Gore is peddling this week. The media elites and their cousins in the left-wing political circus hope to use evidence of this “ecological disaster” to push forward their plans for Green New Deal type measures. Not to mention how global elites and their minions still pine for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Now, as I have written before, I have an affinity for the environment, or more correctly, God’s creation. I feel as all humans are called to be good stewards. I believe that we can and most definitely should take measures to protect ecosystems — for not only now but for the future. I think that especially means water systems and forests. That includes the Amazon rain forest.

I cannot, however, fall in line with the radical rhetoric that spews from the left. Nor can I acquiesce to their use of every crisis to advance anti-human and anti-freedom policies. Like the case now in the Amazon with Bolsonaro, who like Donald Trump draws ire and criticism from the left that borders on fanatical hatred.

The media and some scientific bureaucrats are making the claim these fires are burning at record levels. While that may be true, what is neglected from being told or being misconstrued is the record-keeping for such doesn’t go back that far. In fact, one agency tasked with keeping records in Brazil only goes back to 2013. I can remember fires raging in South and Central America when clearing land for farming as far back to my Weekly Reader days in grade school in the 1980s.

In fact, the New York Times, in a rare fit of sanity, recently did an article that debunked the outrage and manipulative news pieces in regards to the fires. The New York Times article shows that the deforestation in the Amazon is no greater than most of the normal levels. The fires were also shown to be the common practice of slash and burn agriculture, and the burning is being concentrated in areas already affected by earlier slash and burn agricultural practices. An internet search will lead you to data that shows just 10 years ago fires were worse and even more so in the 1990s and 1980s.

While I have mixed feelings concerning deforestation, these practices in South America have created agricultural boons, in soy and cattle. One such state in Brazil has been dubbed as Iowa — not exactly the story being told by CNN and MSNBC. And though there’s a conversation worth having in regards to deforestation and responsible agriculture, it should be one made with facts and reason and not the emotional fallacies of radical environmentalism — the rabid and untruthful claims by eco-terrorist and the ilk among the global elites.

So, while there should always be a concern for ecosystems. And we should endeavor to protect and harness righteously our resources, we should also flatly reject the doctrines and practices of the radical left when it comes to creation. Their ideas and policies are rarely rooted in truth, almost never work, are always anti-human, and more than likely hearken back to paganistic beliefs and deities — things the west cast aside years ago, and we do not need to see them resurface anymore than they have. So, go beyond the fake news and their agenda. Get the facts about what is happening in the Amazon and loosen their fake news control of the narratives.