Reuters: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hit out at foreign critics of his stewardship of the environment on Monday, saying the world needed to understand that the Amazon belonged to Brazilians. He told a forum in Rio de Janeiro it was “amusing” that countries who were among the world’s worst polluters wanted to talk about preserving the rain forest. “The world needs to understand that the Amazon has an owner, and that is the Brazilian people,” Lula said. …