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Yes- This is due to left wing lunacy and their zeal for "alternative fuels". You realize that the Amazon is being cleared to create more land to grow switch grass to use for biofuels to replace petroleum, right?
Just another case of liberal lunatics destroying the environment to "save the world".
Trumpers loathe the environment. They'll want to not only raze the Amazon, they want to pave it over.
For whatever reason, religious fundamentalism seems to encourage people's lack of appreciation for the natural world. The reason American conservatives love Bolsonero so much is he's a Christian nationalist who, like American evangelicals, believes that we are living in the end of days.
For whatever reason, religious fundamentalism seems to encourage people's lack of appreciation for the natural world. The reason American conservatives love Bolsonero so much is he's a Christian nationalist who, like American evangelicals, believes that we are living in the end of days.
It is those very morons that are causing our planet's collapse in the first place, it would be doing just fine without such idiotic politicians and greedy businessmen, obviously, since all religions are mere human inventions and prophesies nonsense.
Yes- This is due to left wing lunacy and their zeal for "alternative fuels". You realize that the Amazon is being cleared to create more land to grow switch grass to use for biofuels to replace petroleum, right?
Just another case of liberal lunatics destroying the environment to "save the world".
I suppose you can back this up with specific factual nonpartisan links, all of which make this exact claim as the reasoning.
How much of that rain forest gets damaged by people and how much is natural damage?
I don't think rain forests start to burn all by themselves. Nor do they chop themselves down.
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Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound
The fact that the losses in the Amazon are totally offset by more trees in America, Europe and China eludes you?
Brazil is a very poor country. Let them do what is necessary to survive. Where I live they are turning natural habitat into new subdivisions hurting local wildlife. Its sad but its what people want. The Amazon may one day no longer exist which is terrible but its just the way things go.
Forests chopped down in tropics outweighed by more trees in regions which were previously too cold
A tree in the Amazon is more valuable than a tree in Germany. The Amazon is a giant, unique, complex ecosystem.
Sure, reforestation in Europe and elsewhere is better than nothing, but it is not the same as compensating for a chopped down Amazon. Especially when at the same time rain forests are also being destroyed in Indonesia and such Asian countries, often because of palm oil production.
With Brazil’s new president promoting more deforestation, this is pretty grim.
gotta make room to grow those soybeans for China.
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