Brazil’s president-elect*Jair Bolsonarohas chosen a new foreign minister who believes
climate change is part of a plot by “cultural Marxists” to stifle western economies and promote the growth of China.
In his*blog, Araújo states his goal is to “help Brazil and the world
liberate themselves from globalist ideology”, which he sees as anti-Christian.
The 51-year-old diplomat – who has never served as an overseas ambassador – claims unnamed
leftist politicians have hijacked environmentalism to serve as a tool for global domination.
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This dogma has been used to justify increasing the regulatory power of states over the economy and the power of international institutions on the nation states and their populations, as well as to stifle economic growth in democratic capitalist countries and to promote the growth of China,” he wrote in*a post*last month.
In*another, he claimed the centre-left Workers party in Brazil was “criminalising sex and reproduction, saying that all heterosexual intercourse is rape and every baby is a risk to the planet as it will increase carbon emissions”. He then went on to accuse the party of criminalising red meat, oil, air conditioners and Disney movies.