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can we stop talking about trump for like five seconds because the AMAZON IS LITERALLY BURNING UP

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_ca/article/d3avvm/the-amazon-is-on-fire-and-the-smoke-can-be-seen-from-space

Posted - August 21, 2019
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  • 46117
    And why do we need to stop talking about TRUMP?


    Don't you KNOW that Amazon is even being attacked is because of TRUMP.

    Burn Amaz BURN.  And take that Jeff Beezos with you.  
      August 21, 2019 10:48 AM MDT
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  • 1817
    i mean the actual Amazon. like the rainforest, you know the biggest one on earth 
      August 21, 2019 10:50 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    OH MY GOD.

    I thought .... anyway I tried to copy that site of yours onto the search bar and it didn't work so I just guessed that it was AMAZON the store.

    No wonder you said shut up about TRUMP.   However, it can be argued that TRUMP also is responsible.  But that is for another time.

    We are going to DIE.  End of story.  National Geographic cover next month will be BLACK.

    Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center sa

     

    Updated 8:17 AM ET, Wed August 21, 2019

     
    A NASA satellite image shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest on 13 August 2019.
     
    A NASA satellite image shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest on 13 August 2019.

    (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 plan
     
     

    ????Just a little alert to the world: the sky randomly turned dark today in São Paulo, and meteorologists believe it’s smoke from the fires burning *thousands* of kilometers away, in Rondônia or Paraguay. Imagine how much has to be burning to create that much smoke(!). SOS

     
     
     
    Dramatic images and videos on social media show giant plumes of smoke rising from the greenery, and lines of fire leaving blackened waste in their wake.
    The smoke has reached all the way to Sao Paolo, more than 1,700 miles away. Images from the city show the sky pitch black in the middle of the afternoon, the sky and sun blanketed by smoke and ash.
    The European Union's satellite program, Copernicus, released a mapshowing smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the east Atlantic coast. The smoke has covered nearly half the entire country, and is even spilling over into neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.
    WMO | OMM
     
    ✔@WMO
     
     

    From the other side of Earth, here’s the latest on the Amazonia fires ????


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    The Amazon river stretches across several of these South American countries, but the majority -- more than two-thirds -- of the rainforest lies in Brazil.
    According to the INPE, more than one and a half soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being destroyed every minute of every day.
    People worldwide are sharing their horror on social media. Fans of the K-Pop band BTS, who call themselves the Army, are even rallying on Twitter to spread word of the fires, with tens of thousands of people tweeting the hashtag #ArmyHelpThePlanet.

    Activists blame Brazil's president

    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 country's economy by exploring the Amazon's economic potential.
    Just weeks ago, the director of INPE was fired after a spat with the president -- the director had defended satellite data that showed deforestation was 88% higher in June than a year earlier, and Bolsonaro called the findings "lies."
    Bolsonaro also criticized the agency's deforestation warnings as harmful for trade negotiations, according to the Agencia Brasil news agency.
    Bolsonaro's pro-business stance may have emboldened loggers, farmers and miners to seize control of a growing area of Amazon land, Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the environmental non-profit organization Observatorio do Clima (Climate Observatory), told CNN en Español last month.
    Budget cuts and federal interference are making it even easier for people to exploit the rainforest. Brazil's environmental enforcement agency has seen its budget cut by $23 million, and official data sent to CNN by Observatorio do Clima shows the enforcement agency's operations have gone down since Bolsonaro was sworn in.
    In July, Greenpeace called Bolsonaro and his government a "threat to the climate equilibrium" and warned that in the long run, his policies would bear a "heavy cost" for the Brazilian economy.
    Environmental activists and organizations like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warn that if the Amazon reaches a point of no return, the rainforest could become a dry savannah, no longer habitable for much of its wildlife. If this happens, instead of being a source of oxygen, it could start emitting carbon -- the major driver of climate change.
    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 21, 2019 7:16 PM MDT
      August 21, 2019 10:57 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Yes ... they've been clear-cutting and burning the Amazon rain forest for decades.
    They are mainly turning it over to raising crops and livestock.
      August 21, 2019 11:01 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Great.  Take the LUNGS of the planet and fill the lungs with GAS from farts of COWS and kill us faster.
      August 21, 2019 11:06 AM MDT
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  • AMEN & HALLELUJAH !!!  I like what you're preaching.
      August 21, 2019 1:45 PM MDT
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  • 2836
    The rainforests are being clearcut for grazing. 
    Relax, Eat Beef, and Burn 
      August 21, 2019 2:25 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    This is what happens when stupid humans abdicate conscience and responsibility to protect their world.

    The tragedy is worsening BY THE HOUR, and yet we turn our collective heads until we are shocked and shaken when another grim reality jumps into view.
    Our answer? Elect utter morons to positions of power who deny there is even a real problem, deny the science, while the seas rise and fill with plastics, the environment worsens and more species disappear forever. We will surely follow.
    To our common detriment, economies, egos and elections are more important to far too many small minds than long term survival in a sustainable world. Thanks to them, this generation now teeters on the wrong side of history. 

    Until the denial stops, people throw off their self-imposed ignorance on this matter and unite en masse to affect real change in the way we live on this planet, the tragedy will continue to metastasize. 
    I for one am not optimistic. 
      August 21, 2019 4:06 PM MDT
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