[Java4Jay]

The Amazon is burning because there are too many people living on this planet. Earth is Easter Island on a large scale.

[SaxxonWoods]

If so, earth will take care of that as it always has.

[setter]

“The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle”

Yep, China is pulling away from the US for the meat needs and making huge ag deals for S. American beef.

[Openurmind]

Support the UN, they are hell bent on culling the human species in mass.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Amazon is burning because there are too many people living on this planet. Earth is Easter Island on a large scale.

No, it's not. There are more trees in New England now than there were at the time of the War for Independence. There is less starvation now than there was 3 billion people ago. Malthus and Ricardo (and Ehrlich) have all been disproven.

Overpopulation is routinely used as an excuse to curtail human freedom.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, bullshillings. Most of the earth's non-permafrost land area has very low pop. density, and the 22% of the (Northern Hemisphere) land that is in permafrost is almost totally unpopulated.

The "problem" of people eating more beef, is that more and more people are so far advanced in terms of relative wealth, food security and choice, that they now have the freedom to eat cow-meat regularly, a luxury once reserved for the rich.

That #1 hallmark of the earth's malnourished masses is presently obesity.

Let's make more CO₂ melt the permafrost, pipe out the methane for a cheap fuel source, do forest-planting, grazing and agriculture on the thawed land, and THEN we can talk about the perils of overpopulation.

Which ain't gonna happen, since almost all the high-consuming beefeater countries are now birthing generations way below replacement.

Historically, when people can care for their own, the population takes care of itself.

[stockpirate]

Gee I thought the Amazon was burning because Brazil stopped paying those NGO’s to oversee it...they’re mad and setting fires...