The Amazon rainforest is burning, and the people who can stop it are doing nothing
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The Amazon rainforests are burning, a cataclysmic event brought about by human greed, and a failure on the part of humans to act as the stewards to our home. Brazil’s revved-up deforestation policy under President Jair Bolsonaro has led to images of smokeThe Amazon rainforest is burning, and the people who can stop it are doing nothing
The Amazon rainforests are burning, a cataclysmic event brought about by human greed, and a failure on the part of humans to act as the stewards to our home. Brazil’s revved-up deforestation policy under President Jair Bolsonaro has led to images of smoke and fire stretching out from the rainforests. The city of San Pablo is covered in smoke. However, these most recent fires are not particularly new to this regime. The New York Times reported that satellite imagery identified 39,194 fires, which marks “a 77 percent increase from the same period in 2018.” The rainforest’s deforestation can be seen from space, and has led to imagery like this. xðÂÂÂJust a little alert to the world: the sky randomly turned dark today in São Paulo, and meteorologists believe itâÂÂs smoke from the fires burning *thousands* of kilometers away, in Rondônia or Paraguay. Imagine how much has to be burning to create that much smoke(!). SOSð pic.twitter.com/P1DrCzQO6xâ Shannon Sims (@shannongsims) August 20, 2019 Read more