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France and UN lead battle for the protection of fire plagued Amazon rainforest

Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC
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France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's right-wing president blamed NGOs for promoting an “environmental psychosis” to damage the country's interests. Read full article

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  • Brasileiro

    Currently Brazil has only one metropolis: USA! It cannot serve two masters.
    I'm sorry Macron, his arguments are the same as those heard by generations of Brazil's children.
    And remember the technology partnerships very well paid by the Brazilian people. Macron, take care of your people. We will someday take care of ours.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6AZkra18pY&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=30

    Aug 23rd, 2019 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says
    The fires are burning at the highest rate since the country's space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (known by the abbreviation INPE), began tracking them in 2013, the center said Tuesday.
    There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That's more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last year.
    The Amazon is often referred to as the planet's lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
    It is considered vital in slowing global warming,
    According to INPE, more than 1½ soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being destroyed every minute of every day.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/americas/amazon-rainforest-fire-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

    Aug 23rd, 2019 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • :o))

    The very fact that such burnings are predictably annual and can be pinpointed on real-time but till none of the governments wish to take any concrete action besides making bombastic statements; proves beyond ANY doubt that this is nothing but just an ongoing farce [AND the damage is real]!

    Aug 24th, 2019 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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