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"Our" lungs are burning

Vee

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
I'm not the most sensitive person and there aren't many things that affect me enough to bring tears to my eyes, but today I cried.
I cried for the Amazon forest and the amount of life, plant & animal, that is being lost in the fires that have been burning for weeks. The lungs of planet earth are burning and yet, very little has been published about that in the press.
A few months ago everyone made a huge fuss about the Notre Dame Cathedral, which regardless of it's historical importance, is still just a building. The biggest forest in the world is disappearing and we almost don't hear about it.

'Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest
 

Stanyon

WWMRD?
It will turn out for the best, though the destruction by nature at first seems the work of a cruel magician it makes way for new beginnings and new life that will flourish and replenish continuing the eternal cycle of life and death.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
It will turn out for the best, though the destruction by nature at first seems the work of a cruel magician it makes way for new beginnings and new life that will flourish and replenish continuing the eternal cycle of life and death.
That's one possibility.
The other is that they'll cover the Amazon in palm plantations & asphalt.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
I'm not the most sensitive person and there aren't many things that affect me enough to bring tears to my eyes, but today I cried.
I cried for the Amazon forest and the amount of life, plant & animal, that is being lost in the fires that have been burning for weeks. The lungs of planet earth are burning and yet, very little has been published about that in the press.
A few months ago everyone made a huge fuss about the Notre Dame Cathedral, which regardless of it's historical importance, is still just a building. The biggest forest in the world is disappearing and we almost don't hear about it.

'Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest

In Mexico, they don't even try to put out forest fires. They let them burn. Probably the same in Brazil.

A lack of leadership.
 

Stanyon

WWMRD?
Native Americans used to intentionally set fire to forests, it helped get rid of underbrush and deadwood making hunting easier and was better for the overall health of the areas they were in.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
It will turn out for the best, though the destruction by nature at first seems the work of a cruel magician it makes way for new beginnings and new life that will flourish and replenish continuing the eternal cycle of life and death.
You better be sarcastic when you say such things...
 
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LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Native Americans used to intentionally set fire to forests, it helped get rid of underbrush and deadwood making hunting easier and was better for the overall health of the areas they were in.
Congratulations. You are now officially a master misrepresenter.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm not the most sensitive person and there aren't many things that affect me enough to bring tears to my eyes, but today I cried.
I cried for the Amazon forest and the amount of life, plant & animal, that is being lost in the fires that have been burning for weeks. The lungs of planet earth are burning and yet, very little has been published about that in the press.
A few months ago everyone made a huge fuss about the Notre Dame Cathedral, which regardless of it's historical importance, is still just a building. The biggest forest in the world is disappearing and we almost don't hear about it.

'Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest
So they're now blaming the farmers and Ranchers. Before that it was loggers.
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
Native Americans used to intentionally set fire to forests, it helped get rid of underbrush and deadwood making hunting easier and was better for the overall health of the areas they were in.

Not quite the same as wholesale burning of tropical forests to make way for farming and cattle ranching.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I'm not the most sensitive person and there aren't many things that affect me enough to bring tears to my eyes, but today I cried.
I cried for the Amazon forest and the amount of life, plant & animal, that is being lost in the fires that have been burning for weeks. The lungs of planet earth are burning and yet, very little has been published about that in the press.
A few months ago everyone made a huge fuss about the Notre Dame Cathedral, which regardless of it's historical importance, is still just a building. The biggest forest in the world is disappearing and we almost don't hear about it.

'Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest

:(
 

sooda

Veteran Member
Congratulations. You are now officially a master misrepresenter.

This 700-Year-Old Farming Technique Can Make Super Fertile ...
This 700-Year-Old Farming Technique Can Make Super Fertile Soil
Jun 23, 2016 · One of the oldest techniques, long documented in the Amazon rainforest, is what’s known as “black earths” or “terra preta.” For hundreds of years, rainforest farmers have figured out that you can enrich soil with biochar: charcoal, basically. Wet vegetation is burned, producing little bits of charcoal, which are ground into the soil.
 

Shiranui117

Pronounced Shee-ra-noo-ee
Premium Member
It will turn out for the best, though the destruction by nature at first seems the work of a cruel magician it makes way for new beginnings and new life that will flourish and replenish continuing the eternal cycle of life and death.
It's far more likely that once large regions of the Amazon get cut down, they'll never regrow. The Amazon is a self-sustaining system as far as soil nutrients and precipitation goes, but it's also a holdover from millions of years ago when rainforests were more common on Earth. If the forest is cut down, runaway soil erosion will follow in the years after, which will then strip all nutrients away from the land and leave it much like the Serengeti, which is at the same latitude and under the same overall climate conditions.

That's one possibility.
The other is that they'll cover the Amazon in palm plantations & asphalt.
I don't know if the palm plantations would even last long enough. Soil erosion will deplete too much of the nutrients from the ground.

This 700-Year-Old Farming Technique Can Make Super Fertile ...
This 700-Year-Old Farming Technique Can Make Super Fertile Soil
Jun 23, 2016 · One of the oldest techniques, long documented in the Amazon rainforest, is what’s known as “black earths” or “terra preta.” For hundreds of years, rainforest farmers have figured out that you can enrich soil with biochar: charcoal, basically. Wet vegetation is burned, producing little bits of charcoal, which are ground into the soil.
Small amounts of wet vegetation. Not large swaths of entire forest. The Amazon can recover from the former, not the latter.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
I'm not the most sensitive person and there aren't many things that affect me enough to bring tears to my eyes, but today I cried.
I cried for the Amazon forest and the amount of life, plant & animal, that is being lost in the fires that have been burning for weeks. The lungs of planet earth are burning and yet, very little has been published about that in the press.
A few months ago everyone made a huge fuss about the Notre Dame Cathedral, which regardless of it's historical importance, is still just a building. The biggest forest in the world is disappearing and we almost don't hear about it.

'Record number of fires' in Brazilian rainforest
We haven't heard much about it because there's no money to be made like with Norte Dame. It's disgusting.
 
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