[Young Werther]

The fires in Brazil are clearing the triple canopy jungle sor farming. Unfortunately the rains will wash away the top soil since the jungle roods are gone and the topsoil is very thin. Does this contribute to increased CO2? You betcha, since the fires make CO2 and the trees which take in CO2 and give off O2 through photosynthesis are no longer there.

Southern Africa below the Sahara is also being burned and the result will be DESERTIFICATION!!! If you look at India and Indonesia the same catastrophic clear cutting is occurring.

[bannie]

I knew that Brazil was doing that...I had no idea that Africa was following suit.

We can't tell another nation what to do...too bad Africa's, apparently, committing suicide?

[CFC__VRWC]

Add Haiti to your list. It has been largely deforested by now, and one of the main reasons there are so many deaths there when hurricanes hit is because of the mudslides resulting from the rains hitting the denuded mountain slopes.