Crisis; The rainforests are burning

[moon]

Climate Crisis: Panic as 74,000 Amazon Wildfires Plunge Sao Paulo into Darkness, Can be Seen from Space



The thousands of Amazon rain forest wildfires now burning over a wide swathe of South America can be seen from space. Some 74,000 fires have been tracked so far this year Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). That is up 84% over last year.

The country’s far right wing president Jair Bolsonaro has actually called for a vast increase in deforestation of the Amazon.

Many of the fires are started by would-be cattle ranchers who want to clear the land and drive away native populations so that they can establish big ranches and sell beef.

The fires are also being caused by human beings burning coal, gas and petroleum, putting greenhouse gases into the air. The greenhouse gases cause the earth to retain the sun’s heat, more and more as we put more CO2 up there. This global heating is drying out the Amazon rain forest.

https://www.juancole.com/2019/08/cli...-darkness.html

Put your money into bottled oxygen.

[moon]

Into the Night Soil;

The rainforests are still there.

fgm7.15;

Wildfires happen during this time of year... Nothing to worry about...

maggot;

Global warming my arse !

Bolsonaro’s fascism is bad for human beings in Brazil and its neighbors. But his actual encouragement of the destruction of the rain forest puts him up there with Hitler and other mass murderers, since the long term effects of what he is doing will kill millions.

https://www.juancole.com/2019/08/cli...-darkness.html

[PoliTalker]

Hello moon,

Put your money into bottled oxygen.

Yeah, but we have this amazing economy.

Profits have never been better for the richest.

[gfm7175]

Into the Night Soil;



fgm7.15;


maggot;




https://www.juancole.com/2019/08/cli...-darkness.html

Wildfires DO happen during this time of year.

Rainforests ARE still there.

The Church of Global Warming IS a fundamentalist religion...

[Phantasmal]

Hello moon,



Yeah, but we have this amazing economy.

Profits have never been better for the richest.

Jobs numbers revised, down 500,000. Do you think the Trump administration fudged on the numbers just a wee bit?

[moon]

fgm7.15;

Wildfires DO happen during this time of year.

Rainforests ARE still there.

The Church of Global Warming IS a fundamentalist religion...

[moon]

Hello moon,



Yeah, but we have this amazing economy.

Profits have never been better for the richest.

Hello PoliTalker;
Yeah, they probably think that they'll have their survival shelters to themselves.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Hello moon,



Yeah, but we have this amazing economy.

Profits have never been better for the richest.

The Rich have to breathe too though.

[PoliTalker]

Hello ThatOwlWoman,

The Rich have to breathe too though.

If they are like Trump they will assume they can buy air.

[evince]

this is very very bad


Siberia is burning too


these idiots think they are ushering in the second coming


that is what Trump was "virtue signaling" by saying he was the 2nd coming

[moon]

this is very very bad


Siberia is burning too


these idiots think they are ushering in the second coming


that is what Trump was "virtue signaling" by saying he was the 2nd coming

I'd have laughed at that a few months ago. Now it's scary.

[evince]

Organized religion always screws mankind


It creates the perfect scaffolding for evil humans to climb to power


believe whatever is in your heart

STOP ORGANIZING

[Truth Detector]

Put your money into bottled oxygen.

[moon]

C'mon- it wasn't THAT funny.

[moon]

This is São Paulo at 4 p.m., completely dark. Solar eclipse? No, it's the black smoke covering the city from the burning Amazon. It has been burning for 3 WEEKS.
The Amazon forest provides the earth with 20% of oxygen, and now that 20% is gone.#PrayforAmazonas pic.twitter.com/G6ptfqYRBf

— Laura Is A Kiwi (@LauraJaber) August 21, 2019

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...151948577.html