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This article doesn’t cover one of the key contributing factors to this which is the cyclical nature of drought resilience and deforestation. As rainforest is lo
by jna_sh 3y ago
This article doesn’t cover one of the key contributing factors to this which is the cyclical nature of drought resilience and deforestation. As rainforest is lost, precipitation decreases due to a decrease in tree perspiration, reducing humidity and the amount of water available to the trees, making them more susceptible to fires.
When you then combine that with longer dry seasons, higher max temperatures, and slash and burn land management practices, the rainforest is in for a bad time.
- wiz21c 3y ago> the rainforest is in for a bad time you mean: we are in for a bad time ?
- meristohm 3y agoIs it okay to consider the wellbeing of others, too?
- thomasstephan 3y agoThe key contributing factor is slash and burn for farming like activities. Your point is more of a long term consequence. The forest is not burning naturally...
- jna_sh 3y agoI don’t think any part of my comment implied this was happening naturally, but just to clarify: it is a cycle very much driven by human activity. My intent in explaining the cycle wasn’t to say “this is happening anyway without humans starting fires” but to say “not only do fires started burn down trees today but they also make future fires worse”. Which is why I say it’s a key contributor to the increase in fires, and disagree with it just being a long term consequence, as you say. Because of this cycle, there will be incidences of slash and burn land management that progress to major forest fire that would not have done previously.
- thomasstephan 3y agoYes