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I wish I could punch the people who purposefully set fire to forests to "clear" the land for farms, and use the teeth they drop from my punches to curse them and their next generations to a miserable life.
That applies to the authorities who allow and encourage environment crimes too.
You know what I’m sick of hearing about- the fires in the Amazon.
These aren’t “wildfires” these aren’t accidents. its not like California where wildfires are natural things, huge sections of the Amazon rainforest are being intentionally burned down every day. You want to know why? It’s because they need more land for livestock. We are literally burning down one of the most important ecosystems in the world to produce one of the most unsustainable forms of food. This isn’t just happening in the Amazon either and it’s not a new thing, it’s happening all over the world and it has been for years. The Amazon provides 20% of the worlds oxygen and it’s being burned every year just for some fucking cattle ranches!? Everyone wants to talk about climate change and cars, planes and plastic, and yes those are all things that need to be changed, but why is no one talking about the main cause of everything -agriculture, mostly animal agriculture. Conventional mono crop farming and animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation and desertification, which in turn are the reason for horrible flooding in areas that used to never flood, horrible droughts, lack of abundant clean and healthy water, horrible fires, infertile land, extinction of many plants and animals, and large breakouts of diseases in plants and animals that are dangerous to the people that consume them. Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gasses and C02 than all forms of transportation including planes and trains. The meat industry is unsustainable and if we are going to feed the world growing population and save the environment too we must change the way we produce our food.
Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:
NASA scientists say that warmer than average surface sea temperatures in the North Atlantic raise the concern for a more active hurricane season, as well as for wildfires in the Amazon thousands of miles away, according to Newsweek.
As NASA pointed out in a statement, warm ocean temperatures near the equator draw the water northward. As the water moves away from the Amazon, the landscape becomes drier and more flammable. That means that fires set for agriculture and clearing land have an increased potential to grow out of control. Meanwhile, the additional moisture traveling north aids the development of hurricanes.
"The fire season forecast is consistent with what we saw in 2005 and 2010, when warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures spawned a series of severe hurricanes and triggered record droughts across the southern Amazon that culminated in widespread Amazon forest fires," said Doug Morton, chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in the NASA statement.
Morton, who co-created the Amazon fire season forecast, analyzes the relationship between climate conditions and active fire detections from NASA satellite instruments to predict fire season severity.
Their homes may not be on fire, but evidently large parts of the Amazon rainforest are.
The government of Brazil led by Bolsonaro favour the development of the Amazon rainforest over conservation, escalating deforestation. Deforestation threatens indigenous populations who live in the forest, loss of a precious and complex ecosystem and a vital carbon store that slows global warming.
Hey, to my followers in the UK, please consider signing this petition.
It’s on the UK Parliament website, which means that at 100k signatures it will be debated in the House of Commons. I know our government is a shitshow right now, but we have declared a climate emergency and this issue cannot be ignored. I don’t know how much this is going to help honestly, but it’s already surpassed the 10k mark which means they have to respond already, but if we get it up to 100k it will raise the awareness level considerably and hopefully help it to gain the attention this issue desperately needs.
OUR PLANET IS BURNING.
The Amazon rainforest is not the only place on fire right now.
From the article:
‘More than 9,000 people were evacuated as flames spread this week across Spain’s Canary Islands. Wildfires also ignited this week in Alaska. Denmark dispatched firefighters to Greenland to control fires burning close to population centers. Major wildfires have also burned through Siberia, and environmental activists expect them to set a new record for burn area in Russia by the end of the season.
‘Part of the reason for these recent fires is the heat. This past July was the hottest July on record. Many parts of Europe shattered heat records: France, Germany, Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom. That heat dried out vegetation and left huge swaths of forests and grasslands primed to ignite.
‘As the climate changes, periods of extreme heat will get longer, more frequent, and more intense. Years of actively suppressing natural fires have allowed trees, grasses, and shrubs to accumulate at unnatural levels in many parts of the world. Deforestation has disrupted the natural water cycle in some regions, causing the remaining undergrowth to dry out. And as people build their homes closer to wildlands, the likelihood of setting off an inferno will only rise.’
Wildfires are spreading through the world at an alarming rate, and for the most part, we’re just sitting back and watching as our planet gets destroyed by a crisis of our own making.
Some various resources, including information about some of the wildfires happening around the world, safety tips, and how you can help:
Wildfire prevention & safety tips (National Geographic)
Germany wildfire increase (DW news, June 22)
Hawaii wildfire (The Guardian, July 12)
Iraqi wildfires (National Geographic, July 22)
Arctic wildfires (The Guardian, August 12)
Gran Canaria wildfire (The Guardian, August 19)
Amazonia wildfire (National Geographic, August 21)
Amazon Watch (find info, make a donation)
Rainforest Alliance (find info, make a donation)
WWF (find info, make a donation, sign a petition)
Rainforest Action Network (make a donation)
And even if you can’t donate to any of the above things, please share this post, and others like it! Raising awareness is just as important as donating, perhaps even more so. And let me know if there’s anything I should add to this!
Why people should be worried about the blazes and increased deforestation in Brazil
A factsheet
New report says more than 30m hectares burned, 79% more than in 2023, after country saw worst drought on record
After enduring its worst drought on record in 2024, Brazil closed the year with another alarming milestone: between January and December, 30.86m hectares of wilderness burned – an area larger than Italy. The figure published in a new report is 79% higher than in 2023 and the largest recorded by Fire Monitor since its launch in 2019 by MapBiomas, an initiative by NGOs, universities and technology companies that monitors Brazil’s biomes. The data could pose an embarrassment as Brazil prepares to host COP30 in Belém, the capital of the Amazonian state of Pará, in November. Not only was the state the hardest hit by the fires, accounting for 24% of the total burned area, but the Amazon was also the most affected of Brazil’s six biomes, at 58%. The area scorched in the Amazon in 2024 exceeds the total burned across the country in 2023. “It was an absurd increase,” said Ane Alencar, coordinator of MapBiomas, adding that, for the first time, forest areas were the most affected, surpassing grasslands and pastures. “Once a forest is hit by fire, it takes years and years to recover … If there’s another drought and that forest isn’t protected, it will burn again,” she said. The researchers believe severe drought between 2023 and 2024 – the worst since the government began keeping records in 1950 – exacerbated by El Niño was a decisive factor in the wildfire surge. “But that’s just one part of the equation. The other involves human activity,” said Alencar, pointing primarily to the agricultural sector, which often uses fire to clear pastures, as well as deforestation, which has been drastically reduced under the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third term, but still hasn’t been eradicated. “There were also cases where fires simply started in the middle of a forest, which suggests possible criminal activity,” the researcher said.
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