Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected this Tuesday taking on the role of environmental leader and stressed that it would not be consistent on his part to prevent oil exploration near the Amazon.
The Brazilian head of state was consulted about the license that was granted to the state oil company Petrobras to explore an area considered vulnerable by environmentalists, located 500 kilometers from the mouth of the Amazon River.
“We have people who believe that we should not explore for oil anywhere,” he said, but “that is incoherent” and “an act of irresponsibility.”
“I don’t want to be an environmental leader”
“If I end oil, what am I going to use?” he said. “As head of state, I have to be responsible.” “I don’t want to be an environmental leader,” he said.
However, Lula expressed that “few countries are as close to giving up” oil as Brazil, which has an electrical matrix that is more than 80% renewable.
“Brazil is already giving lessons to the world,” he said. However, he confessed that abandoning oil is a process and did not provide a specific time frame. Source: news
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