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The problem is that the current government doesn't WANT to investigate and arrest criminals. They cut funding, merged environmental protection and indigenous af

The problem is that the current government doesn't WANT to investigate and arrest criminals. They cut funding, merged environmental protection and indigenous affairs into the agricultural ministry. This is well documented. The forest is on the edge of becoming a net carbon producer for the first time. This doesn't simply reverse when it regrows from some saplings. Its capacity to create clouds to replenish water is already heavily compromised. When that stops this simply doesn't reverse. When you burn sections without first clearing it of its animal populations they perish, destroying the ecosystems that often needs animals to help germinate new trees. The mercury used for illegal gold mining doesn't just go out of the river and back into the bottle. Billions of animals die from these actions and the results will be irreversible. To call the Amazon unstoppable, to say that the humans that are dying is the real problem, smacks of the ignorance that has led us to this point.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
> The forest is on the edge of becoming a net carbon producer for the first time. Forests in general are stable - _carbon neutral_, unless disturbed. Oceans are where most of the Earth oxygen is converted from CO₂. The real reason why Brazil needs to save the Amazon, for South America, is water supply - rain forest induced water evaporation is main source of water for the Río de la Plata basin - where several of the biggest and developed cities in the South America are.
- Sporktacular 4y ago
  It's becoming a carbon source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03629-6.epdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03629-6.epdf But if those cities dry up then what? Economic loss? Not everything is reducible to a price tag. The species in Amazonian ecosystems have as much of a right to exist as any other, including humans. Brazil should save it because it's the right thing to do.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago

> The forest is on the edge of becoming a net carbon producer for the first time. Forests in general are stable - _carbon neutral_, unless disturbed. Oceans are where most of the Earth oxygen is converted from CO₂. The real reason why Brazil needs to save the Amazon, for South America, is water supply - rain forest induced water evaporation is main source of water for the Río de la Plata basin - where several of the biggest and developed cities in the South America are.

Sporktacular 4y ago
It's becoming a carbon source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03629-6.epdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03629-6.epdf But if those cities dry up then what? Economic loss? Not everything is reducible to a price tag. The species in Amazonian ecosystems have as much of a right to exist as any other, including humans. Brazil should save it because it's the right thing to do.