The Brazilian gov is destroying the rain forest.

[Mai72]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

Damn, and what a shame. Wonder what type of effect this will have on the world's environment say in 20 years.

 

[thilanliyan]

Bloody tin pot fact-free wannabe dictators getting into power....idiocracy here we come...

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

Damn, and what a shame. Wonder what type of effect this will have on the world's environment say in 20 years.

The amazon generates some 20% of our global oxygen. It's gonna have a fucking horrifying effect on the environment.

 

[Thebobo]

Another trump wannabe, thanks Puttin.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

Damn, and what a shame. Wonder what type of effect this will have on the world's environment say in 20 years.

This place is headed down the tubes. Bunch of dumb people that can't see past their own noses. I don't have kids and I am terrified of the world that the kids being born today will have to live in. These are the golden days of humanity. Its downhill from here.

 

[thilanliyan]

The amazon generates some 20% of our global oxygen.

Who needs oxygen when you've got libtard tears!!!

Tears contain water...electrolysis to make hydrogen and oxygen...presto I've solved the world's energy crisis and the CO2 problem. Just need enough of these types of gov'ts elected to piss off the libs and we'll be off oil in no time.

 

[K1052]

If the US is really itching for some regime change Brazil might be a better place to start. I mean it shouldn't be too hard since you know Bolsonaro is up to his eyeballs in corrupt shit that could be easily exposed.

 

[Pens1566]

Brazil is burning, and Greenland is melting.

How long until Batshit McBonespurs thinks we should acquire Brazil?

 

[Thebobo]

Honestly, we're fucked.

 

[brycejones]

Great the fucking rain forest is on fire. But nothing to see here, instead let's berate Ford for agreeing to California's emissions plan and keep pushing that beautiful clean coal.

 

[UglyCasanova]

I’ve read that most of the fires are intentional, these are people burning down the forest for development and slash and burn farming. Fires are up 80% from last year. This is a man made disaster and Brazil needs to get this shit together and put a stop to it. I know that’s not fair for me to be wanting a different country to want to tell their people what to do, especially when it comes to them making a living, but what they are destroying is incredibly important and irreplaceable.

Map showing the fires

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I honestly don't understand why anyone honestly thought the rainforest would survive heh. That's just silly.

South America is a shithole just like plenty of other places in the world. If you honestly expedcted people to uphold morals or think about the environment then I have a bridge to sell you.

I’ve read that most of the fires are intentional, these are people burning down the forest for development and slash and burn farming. Fires are up 80% from last year. This is a man made disaster and Brazil needs to get this shit together and put a stop to it. I know that’s not fair for me to be wanting a different country to want to tell their people what to do, especially when it comes to them making a living, but what they are destroying is incredibly important and irreplaceable.

Map showing the fires

Of course they were ALL intentional..... It's a fucking RAINforest. Not a dry california forest. Starting fires is damn near impossible from natural means.

 

[Vic]

I honestly don't understand why anyone honestly thought the rainforest would survive heh. That's just silly.

South America is a shithole just like plenty of other places in the world. If you honestly expedcted people to uphold morals or think about the environment then I have a bridge to sell you.
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Seems pretty hypocritical to knock South America when we have those same problems right here in the US.

Of course they were ALL intentional..... It's a fucking RAINforest. Not a dry california forest. Starting fires is damn near impossible from natural means.

The Amazon basin has a monsoon climate with wet and dry seasons. Right now is the dry season.

 

[pcgeek11]

Yes, but dry is relative...

 

[cytg111]

As is cognitive decline

 

[sandorski]

The Nation-State is determined to kill us all.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Burn it down crowd approved.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Not necessarily for this situation, but maybe...? Does the world intervene in some way for the greater need of all humanity? Not sure what we do here otherwise, stand on the sidelines and enjoy the sweet oxygen while we have it.

 

[K1052]

France says it will oppose the EU trade deal with Mercosur over this. That's a pretty big deal.

Shoving back economically on Brasil is probably the only realistic way to get them to change course.

 

[Muse]

We're Doomed, Now What?

That book is pretty good, read a few months ago. I just started a much more alarming book, The Uninhabitable Earth. OMG, the jig's up, we can't avoid utter catastrophe and we instigated it.

 

[Jaskalas]

I think what Brazil needs is more people. We apparently think it is good for the US to develop, to strip both land and resources, to make room for hundreds of millions more - should also be a great "solution" for them, right? Just pave the Amazon for condos. /s

Fact is, stability and sustainability are the ONLY way humanity survives this century. That none / few of you actually want it, is part of the problem. To anyone who says "Save the rainforest", I ask you... NIMBY? Or will you join me in wanting to save OUR land as well? We need to take the lead in showing the world how to save itself. How to stop unsustainable growth.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Fact is, stability and sustainability are the ONLY way humanity survives this century. That none / few of you actually want it, is part of the problem. To anyone who says "Save the rainforest", I ask you... NIMBY? Or will you join me in wanting to save OUR land as well? We need to take the lead in showing the world how to save itself. How to stop unsustainable growth.

Pretty much. Depending on other countries while living in lofty subburbs from torn down forests is damn near equivalent of do as I say not as I do.

 

[K1052]

I think what Brazil needs is more people. We apparently think it is good for the US to develop, to strip both land and resources, to make room for hundreds of millions more - should also be a great "solution" for them, right? Just pave the Amazon for condos. /s

Fact is, stability and sustainability are the ONLY way humanity survives this century. That none / few of you actually want it, is part of the problem. To anyone who says "Save the rainforest", I ask you... NIMBY? Or will you join me in wanting to save OUR land as well? We need to take the lead in showing the world how to save itself. How to stop unsustainable growth.

This is simple, disallow sprawl and push up densities in existing cities/suburbs. You're presenting a false choice.

 

[Moonbeam]

I suppose this is why we fear AI. We know at an unconscious level exactly what we would do.

 

[Jaskalas]

This is simple, disallow sprawl and push up densities in existing cities/suburbs. You're presenting a false choice.

While I agree that places like San Fran could use more density, that concession is mostly for the existing job market to become healthier. You undermine any benefit that brings if, after you move everyone out of the suburbs, you simply replace them with MORE people.

You ultimately present 1: a bad choice of living, and 2: a fantasy that it can solve this. As if resource consumption will not increase if 100+ million people are added to a country. We can aim for efficiency all we want, but at some point people will revolt against the loss of quality of life. You won't save the planet if the conditions to do so are intolerable. No body wants to live like sardines in Tokyo. And what if we did accomplish that? The next 100+ million will always be waiting to come in and make things worse.

Growth must end. That is the ONLY way.