The fires in Brazil are not like the California wildfires. Brazil's fires are deliberate, and there are thousands of them.
Sometimes life moves faster than what even the news sources know. When the US, put soybeans on the tariff board, the Chinese looked elsewhere. Mainly Brazil... But even Brazil could not satisfy the eventual demand, so the Brazilian owners(farmers) burned down the wild growth land to plant the soybeans and other goods, like lumber, needed by the Chinese.
We tend to look at this stuff as long term... like years, but the world is moving pretty fast, and it's not always easy to go back. Just ask some small farmers.
