Brazil's Rainforest Burning At A Record Rate

[Goldie]

(CNN)Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.The fires are burning at the highest rate since the country's space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), began tracking them in 2013, the center said Tuesday.There have been a total of 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That's more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last year.The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere.It is considered vital in slowing global warming, and it is also home to uncountable species of fauna and flora. Roughly half the size of the US, it is the largest rainforest on the planet.

Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says | CNN

Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.

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:imsayin: How?

 

[DMorgan]

 

[OGDirtyD]

Sad shit man, we need to be throwing into a fund to combat this shit aggressively.

 

[GO843]

Fuck it, let's just get to Armageddon already...The waiting game is wack...

 

[Sony Montana]

Yeah man the planet gonna look like mad max in 50 years

It’s gonna get hotter, and 40% of the population gonna starve to death in countries like China and India and some in Africa. The US gonna have major flooding in the gulf, south Florida, and the east coast

Cali gonna catch fire

Many people are gonna half to relocate which is gonna create a financial crisis

It’s over B

 

[Goldie]

How df that shit been burning for over 3 weeks and nobody has done shit?

 

[Dwayne]

How df that shit been burning for over 3 weeks and nobody has done shit?

Nobody wanna do shit probably.

Its been 3 weeks and we just heard about.

Should have been news after the first week if what they saying about how important the Amazon is.

 

[Sony Montana]

Because the forest itself is the distance of New York to like kansas

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

Literally the first I've heard of it was today in the Jay thread.

These rich elite mfers could come together and put some money up to help like they did with that Catholic "church".

 

[VIBE]

Environmental groups have long been campaigning to save the Amazon, blaming Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, for the endangerment of the vital rainforest. They accuse him of relaxing environmental controls in the country and encouraging deforestation.
Bolsonaro's environmental policies have been controversial from the start. A former army captain, he made campaign promises to restore the economy by exploring the Amazon's economic potential.

On Wednesday, Bolsonaro said that the recent wave of fires in the Amazon may have been caused by nongovernmental organizations in order to draw international criticism to his government.
"Crime exists, and we need to make sure that this type of crime does not increase. We took money away from the NGOs," he said.
"They are now feeling the pinch from the lack of funding. So, maybe the NGO types are conducting these criminal acts in order to generate negative attention against me and against the Brazilian government. This is the war we are facing."

 

[DOS_patos]

I told y'all the. Brazilian Trump was no joke.
He fuckin up them favela's too

 

[Focal Point]

Every country capable should be helping with this...

 

[SeaSnake]

So killing Mother Earth is just openly accepted now? Like we literally need Captain Planet.

 

[SeaSnake]

Environmental groups have long been campaigning to save the Amazon, blaming Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, for the endangerment of the vital rainforest. They accuse him of relaxing environmental controls in the country and encouraging deforestation.
Bolsonaro's environmental policies have been controversial from the start. A former army captain, he made campaign promises to restore the economy by exploring the Amazon's economic potential.

On Wednesday, Bolsonaro said that the recent wave of fires in the Amazon may have been caused by nongovernmental organizations in order to draw international criticism to his government.
"Crime exists, and we need to make sure that this type of crime does not increase. We took money away from the NGOs," he said.
"They are now feeling the pinch from the lack of funding. So, maybe the NGO types are conducting these criminal acts in order to generate negative attention against me and against the Brazilian government. This is the war we are facing."

Either he is extremely short sighted and just wants to be paid off by somebody. Or he really just crazy as fuck. Wouldn’t having an intact rainforest offer way more monetary gain in the long run?

 

[Goldie]

 

[DOS_patos]

and out of control fire is not subjected to protest to not allow the bulldozing of the rainforest.

just saying,

 

[Northside7]

All a part of the devil's plan to destroy the earth.

 

[Inori]

This is just sad... and scary that more attention hasn't been given tho this

 

[shutupGabi]

Bruh wtf is goin on.