Folha de S.Paulo

Three clocks plague the world: the Doomsday Clock, created to estimate risks of atomic firing; the Climate Clock, which calculates the time for, at the current rate of CO2 emissions, to reach a 1.5 degree Celsius increase in global temperature in relation to pre-industrial levels; and the clock of autocratization (the Democalypse), which observes the gradual erosion of democracies.

Published on 03/03/2022 - 16h18

A government decision or public policy can be judged by how much it kills. It does not just kill as a side effect, for miscalculation of risks, for tragic cost-benefit choices that seek lesser harm. It does not just kill in intricate, multifactorial and time-consuming causal chains. It kills in simple, quick and palpable causal relationships, by deliberate choice for the greater evil ("greater", of course, if the order of values gives some weight to life).

Published on 02/02/2022 - 17h59

Manchester City, 13 points ahead of Chelsea in the Premier League, and Real Madrid, the Spanish leader and champions of the Spanish Super Cup, are today, perhaps, the two best teams in world football.

Published on 01/19/2022 - 12h37

A green president, accompanied by green ministers and green officers, dedicated to protecting a little green Amazon, has just decreed a vanguard plan to assume the global leadership in the mitigation of climate change: the "National Green Growth Program".

Published on 10/27/2021 - 20h47

Jair Bolsonaro fabricated many battles in this pandemic: of the economy against life; chloroquine against vaccines; freedom against face masks; magical thinking against science. In the field of facts, he lost them all. In the field of fantasy, he insists on all. Politically, it remained for him to harass the Supreme Court and Congress, to blame states and municipalities, and insinuate military intervention to discharge himself of the damage caused by his conduct.

Published on 05/13/2021 - 20h47

The Brazilian government does not expect little of the Leaders Summit on Climate. It wants to be seen as a serious and competent actor, and then take billions of dollars to support its projects. The obstacle will be one of persuasion: with vertiginous records of deforestation, environmental deprotection and aggression to indigenous people, every single act practiced during these almost 30 months betray this ambition.

Published on 04/20/2021 - 22h04

There is no freedom where there is fear, even if the Constitution guarantees that we are all free. Fear can be spontaneous, irrational, a personality trait. For that there is therapy, among other things. But fear can be deliberately fabricated from the outside, both by the state and by society.

Published on 03/10/2021 - 18h06

?There are presidents who govern by decree. Others, by legislative initiative, constitutional amendments, all combined and so on. Jair Bolsonaro governs by common crimes and responsibility crimes, both by acting and by ommission. His performatic insubordination to law, decorum and civility has always been treated as a caricature. In the presidency, he routinely attacked freedom, life and sovereignty. During the pandemic, the technique became deadly en masse.

Published on 03/03/2021 - 23h21

Folha celebrates 100 years of existence this Friday (19). Few organizations, regardless of their activity, reach this milestone. And even fewer reach this milestone in professional journalism. The current state of journalism has made the centenary club a lonely one.

Published on 02/19/2021 - 16h13