India, Sept. 4 -- The Amazon is not on fire. There are wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, as there are every year in July-September, because this is the dry season. There may be more blazes than usual this year and it may even be the fault of Jair Bolsonaro, the Trump mini-me who became the President of Brazil last January, but that is not clear.

Yet there now is a great outcry, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying that Bolsonaro lied to him about his stance on climate change. Macron is even threatening to withhold French ratification of the recently-signed free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (of which Brazil is the biggest member).

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson declares that it is "an internationa...