The Amazon is Burning

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      I regularly do not like to write about news, however, this time is related to our main goal, saving the planet and changing our lives.
If you have not heard, the Amazon is currently burning, not that Amazon, but I am talking about the Amazonian forest. You might ask why this is so important; this happens every year, in the Amazon and California even in Russia.

      The fires every year in California or Russia may be due to environmental reasons. However, I believe that some of these fires are not induced by environmental causes but by humans who have business interests in these areas. This could be true or false but still lies under the conspiracy theory category.

    What is really important about the Amazonian Rainforest is that this forest is called “the planet’s Lungs”. This is because the forest alone produces almost 20% of the oxygen in the whole world. According to the Brazilian Research Center (INPE), the number of fires in Brazil is 80% higher than last year. 99% of these fires result from human actions, either on purpose or by accident as stated by Alberto Caesars, a senior scientist at INPE, according to CNN.

     In my opinion, people are causing deforestation because of new industrial and business projects that benefit from the land the Amazon provides. This is not only for agriculture practice; it is mainly used to transport lumber and oil. The land was also used to build the transoceanic highway connecting Brazil with surrounding countries to reap the benefits of trade with China.
Unfortunately, according to the World Wildlife Fund, this fire could generate a lot of carbon dioxide, one of the major drivers of climate change.



Still not convinced? Look at this,

CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said the fires are "definitely human-induced," and can't be attributed to natural causes like lightning strikes.
The worst thing always comes from people who are responsible for the decision making. Activists say the anti-environment rhetoric of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged such tree-clearing activities according to BBC.
In response, Mr. Bolsonaro, a long-time climate change skeptic exactly like our Donald Trump, accused non-governmental organizations of starting the fires themselves to damage his government's image.  He later said the government lacked the resources to fight the flames.

So what is this? Is it a political war? This is like two people living in the same house, and each one starts a small fire in one of the rooms, just to say the other one is not a good leader. This is one reason why I hate politics, when they enter anything they damage it directly.


How Bad is it?

     I am telling you it is very bad, a huge area in Brazil is burning right now and for almost three weeks (at the time of this post) you only need to look at some of the images to know how bad it is. NASA said that you can see the smoke from space, and according to the BBC it has even caused skies to darken in São Paulo. See the tweet down  - more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) away.



Moreover, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (Cams), a part of the European Union's Earth observation program, the smoke has reached the Atlantic coast. The fires have been releasing a huge amount of carbon dioxide a bout 228 megatons so far this year.





  We need to move things around, take action to push the politicians to declare this forest an emergency or crisis area. Twitter users criticized the media for giving more attention to the fire at Notre Dame and other news than to the rain-forest fires. 

Social media users also called out billionaires for lack of donations. Everyone on the planet should be worried, this is our life. This is our planet’s lungs and we need to save it, otherwise, our planet dies. A lot of celebrities stumbled upon this situation and started to talk about it including C. Ronaldo who also tweeted about it because he is concerned.

You should also be concerned about it, especially here on The Life You Deserve. So, start brainstorming with me. What can we do to help revive our planet?







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