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3. I doubt the Xingu people-what's left of them-use too many aerosol cans

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Tue Mar 30, 2021, 03:57 AM

Mar 2021

Bolsonaro's deforestation, allowed to proceed at a pace even greater than the destructive rate under his predecessors, is still the biggest factor in this mess. If it isn't brought to a screeching halt and a reversal started, like yesterday, the Amazon forest, long known as the world's "green lung," will cease to function as such forever.

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The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It Absorbs [View all] orleans Mar 2021 OP

The headline is an extremely poor way of framing the issue at hand here Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2021 #1

I notice that also. Amazon rainforest REGIONS now... Hortensis Mar 2021 #2

I agree, it's not the forest cutting itself down!!! Fucking humans are a blight Shanti Shanti Shanti Mar 2021 #6

I doubt the Xingu people-what's left of them-use too many aerosol cans DFW Mar 2021 #3

Scary Part modrepub Mar 2021 #4

That's it exactly spinbaby Mar 2021 #7

I believe that we are close enough to the tipping point, marie999 Mar 2021 #5

We Are Probably Already Past That modrepub Mar 2021 #8

Humans in 100 years will be a mere fraction of what they are now. roamer65 Mar 2021 #9

Not Discounting That Possibility modrepub Mar 2021 #10

In the last ice age there no more than 10 million people. marie999 Mar 2021 #11

We Didn't Have Combine Harvesters modrepub Mar 2021 #12