The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs

Not least because lungs take in oxygen and output carbon dioxide. I guess while the Amazon is on fire it acts a bit like lungs.

The above link is a paragraph and a click-through link. This is the actual article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-f...

Well from the point of view of your body, your lungs bring oxygen in and take carbon dioxide out.

This is a very big problem that makes us think. thank you

The article does not promote deforestation.

> Losing the Amazon, beyond representing a planetary historic tragedy beyond measure, would also make meeting the ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement all but impossible.

It discusses a misconception that has been propogated lately.

> The Amazon is a vast, ineffable, vital, living wonder. It does not, however, supply the planet with 20 percent of its oxygen.

> As the biochemist Nick Lane wrote in his 2003 book Oxygen, “Even the most foolhardy destruction of world forests could hardly dint our oxygen supply, though in other respects such short-sighted idiocy is an unspeakable tragedy.”