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Not 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.

by nafey 7y ago

cameronbrown 7y ago
That's because the media want your eyeballs for ad impressions. It's sad how bad clickbait has gotten.
Synaesthesia 7y ago
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.
maxheadroom 7y ago
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]). [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne
superpermutat0r 7y ago
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!
- vvvvz 7y ago
  Eat your bugs you vermin.
thelittleone 7y ago
For a few weeks there was almost zero news coverage. But the fires gained a lot of traction on the 20th of August [1]. The number of fires has increased year over year by 84% [2]. Given that the amazon produces 20% of Earth's oxygen that's quite a concern. I think the global outcry is warranted (any less may not have achieved a result). It's a good first step that Bolsonaro has deployed the Army for a month to fight the fires, time will tell if this is an authentic effort or one simply to quell the angry Internet mob. If we don't take a stand where profit > environment on a global scale are we not complicit in the destruction? [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=amazon%20fires https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=... [2] https://www.woodtv.com/news/international/sharp-increase-in-amazon-fires-this-year/ https://www.woodtv.com/news/international/sharp-increase-in-...

Not 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.

by nafey 7y ago

Not 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.

cameronbrown 7y ago

That's because the media want your eyeballs for ad impressions. It's sad how bad clickbait has gotten.

Synaesthesia 7y ago

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.

maxheadroom 7y ago

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]). [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne

superpermutat0r 7y ago

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!

vvvvz 7y ago
Eat your bugs you vermin.

thelittleone 7y ago

For a few weeks there was almost zero news coverage. But the fires gained a lot of traction on the 20th of August [1]. The number of fires has increased year over year by 84% [2]. Given that the amazon produces 20% of Earth's oxygen that's quite a concern. I think the global outcry is warranted (any less may not have achieved a result). It's a good first step that Bolsonaro has deployed the Army for a month to fight the fires, time will tell if this is an authentic effort or one simply to quell the angry Internet mob. If we don't take a stand where profit > environment on a global scale are we not complicit in the destruction? [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=amazon%20fires https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=... [2] https://www.woodtv.com/news/international/sharp-increase-in-amazon-fires-this-year/ https://www.woodtv.com/news/international/sharp-increase-in-...