(Aug 21, 2019 11:44 AM)ℛainbowℋℯȵȶᴀį Wrote:  And nobody saying anything about it until its too late...gg

(Aug 21, 2019 03:52 PM)Rsynced Wrote:  The Big Agriculture businesses want the land, sadly I am beginning to think this is the elites end game. Maybe they feel threatened by the internet and social media with people coming together for the good of humanity. These past years they have been more aggressive than I have ever seen in my life time. Seems like they want to take it all and are hurrying to do so... Insanity at it's core.

(Aug 21, 2019 04:38 PM)Blogger Wrote:  I believe it's on week 3. Sad to see it happening. They don't expect it to survive. All for development. Money truly is the root of all evil.

(Aug 21, 2019 06:48 PM)ZietzSeV Wrote:  Oh my that is a huge amount of forest. Crazy, I guess it clears debris and helps richen the soil for the next generation of trees.

I wonder what caused the fire.

(Aug 21, 2019 07:40 PM)tonitones Wrote:  They're saying that it was intentional and Brazil's president is allegedly behind it to clear the land for agriculture Clay Davis.

(Aug 21, 2019 06:29 PM)tonitones Wrote:  Exactly.
Notre-Dame cathedral was burning, everybody loses their minds. The Amazon forest is burning, no one gives bats an eye.

Quote:Exactly.
Notre-Dame cathedral was burning, everybody loses their minds. The Amazon forest is burning, no one gives bats an eye.

Quote:The official figures show more than 75,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year — the highest number since 2013. That compares with 40,000 in the same period in 2018.

Forest fires are common in the Amazon during the dry season, which runs from July to October. They can be caused by naturally occurring events, such as by lightning strikes, but also by farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing …

Activists say the anti-environment rhetoric of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged such tree-clearing activities.

In response, Mr Bolsonaro, a long-time climate change sceptic, accused non-governmental organisations of starting the fires themselves to damage his government’s image …

… The Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Ipam) has stated the recent increase in the number of fires in the Amazon is directly related to deliberate deforestation.

While the exact scale of deforestation in the rainforest will only be certain when 2019 figures are published at the end of the year, preliminary data suggests a significant rise.

The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) tracks suspected deforestation in real-time using satellite data, sending out alerts to flag areas that may have been cleared…