Posted on 08/22/2019 7:47:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest are proliferating at an alarming rate.
That's the gist of an announcement this week by the country's National Institute for Space Research, or INPE. According to the agency, there have been 74,155 fires in Brazil so far this year — most of which erupted in the Amazon. That represents an astonishing leap of more than 80% over last year and by far the most that the agency has recorded since it began compiling this data in 2013.
About half those fires, or nearly 36,000 of them, have ignited in just the past month. That's nearly as many as in all of 2018. Smoke from the fires has darkened the skies over major Brazilian cities, such as São Paulo.
🌎Just a little alert to the world: the sky randomly turned dark today in São Paulo, and meteorologists believe it’s 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(!). SOS🌎 pic.twitter.com/P1DrCzQO6x— Shannon Sims (@shannongsims) August 20, 2019
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signaled unconcern about the situation. The far-right leader, who took office in January, has repeatedly lambasted Brazil's environmental regulations as an impediment to economic development, and under his tenure environmental agencies have seen diminished staff and funding. That includes INPE itself, whose leader, Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão, was canned this month because — according to Galvão — he questioned how Bolsonaro was using his agency's data.
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Well they have to clear the land to grow food for China
“We didn’t start the fire,
it was always burning since the world’s been turning...”
So, if all this deforestation has occurred, what’s burning? CONgress should pass a law against lightning inspired fires.
What about the Brazilian Amazon women?
Farmers have been burning brush since farming began.
CO2 levels 
Doo-doo-doo, da-da-do-do-wow!
There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let’s knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say ‘save the rainforest’, but what do you know?
You’ve never been to the rainforest before!
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To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes ‘cos caring sells
All you activists can go ____ yourselves.
Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There’ll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
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Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
It’s totally gay, It’s totally gay!
The atmosphere needs more CO2 to help the vegetation grow back.
Not as much CO2 as Greta Thunberg is creating flying people back and forth the Atlantic so she can sail in a Yacht made of Oil
Yes. We must burn the forest to save it.
For a long time, you’ve been able to see these fires from space.
Used to be that those dang rich folks were clearing the forest and expanding their farms were “at fault.” Not to mention those nasty miners digging for gold...Always someone to blame...
Isn’t the Brazilian rainforest destroyed and lost forever at least once or twice every few years? I haven’t been to check lately, guess I’ll have to take the media’s word for it...not like they’d lie about something like that...
Ah...hello? The vegetation will grow back. Idiots.
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