The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
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#2Not gonna lie I had the impression that Amazon was gonna get wiped out in a matter of weeks considering the amount of attention this story has been getting.
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#3Not gonna lie I had the impression that Amazon was gonna get wiped out in a matter of weeks considering the amount of attention this story has been getting.
That's because the media want your eyeballs for ad impressions. It's sad how bad clickbait has gotten.
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#4Not gonna lie I had the impression that Amazon was gonna get wiped out in a matter of weeks considering the amount of attention this story has been getting.
Of course not, but it's on a steady path to destruction, if you look how it has dwindled over the decades. We ought to be concerned.
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#5The Amazon Rainforest Tipping Point is 20-25% deforestation total.
We are at 20% deforestation now.
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-amazon-deforestation.html
The forest fires stem from previous deforestation, so destruction is cumulative, exponential.
Past the tipping point the rainforest dies.
To quote the Expanse, this is the cascade, (and we are nearing the point where) this station is already dead.
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#6Not gonna lie I had the impression that Amazon was gonna get wiped out in a matter of weeks considering the amount of attention this story has been getting.
To be fair, the article leaves out the size of the areas affected by the wildfires; however, it does proffer a guesstimation in the potential damage as a byproduct of the fires:
>The fires have been releasing a large amount of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 228 megatonnes so far this year, according to Cams, the highest since 2010.
In units the Americans would be familiar with, that would be roughly 461,608,800,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. (1 tonne = ~2024.6 pounds, according to Wikipedia[0]).
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#7Our information ecosystem is truly polluted. It's hard to find impartial journalism these days – or maybe it was always like that? I think that our willingness to share content (without thinking) is exploited to spread disinformation.
Re: The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
#8Our information ecosystem is truly polluted. It's hard to find impartial journalism these days – or maybe it was always like that? I think that our willingness to share content (without thinking) is exploited to spread disinformation.
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#9Not gonna lie I had the impression that Amazon was gonna get wiped out in a matter of weeks considering the amount of attention this story has been getting.
All the rainforest will disappear around 2040-2060 based on current projections. Not that I blame the developing world for growing palm trees or soybean that feeds the cattle or gets into products for the developed world.
Hail Globalization!
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#10In the average of the last 15 years:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...
>As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.