Turns out it matters who’s in power…
Viva Lula!
Turns out they’re still destroying the Amazon like there’s no tomorrow. The Amazon is beyond point of return anyway
Edit: for all the downvoters… https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/05/new-study-warns-swaths-amazon-have-already-passed-key-tipping-point
Hi, Brazilian biologist here!
You’re correct that the current deforestation rate is still positive, meaning, we are still losing forest area daily.
You’re incorrect about us being past the point of no return - we are dangerously close to it though.
The post is correct about a massive reduction in the deforestation rate in the last 5 years.
what if we replant the trees? we’ll lose species we didn’t even know existed let alone could save but we can save what’s left, right?
The issue with the Amazon rainforest is that the soil isn’t fertile enough to sustain a forest by itself. It heavily relies on the already existing plant mass to die and give up nutrients to new plants (and some complicated air currents that include desert minerals).
If you remove enough trees, you kill this nutrient cycle and when you try to plant new ones, they will not grow.
That’s ignoring all the other living beings that would get disrupted in this process, and that we couldn’t feasibly achieve this due to the insane amount of different species interdependent in a forest like the Amazon - we can’t just select three or four native trees and replant everything.
Tomato, tomatoe… https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/05/new-study-warns-swaths-amazon-have-already-passed-key-tipping-point
I appreciate you taking the time to respond though 👍 :)
There are different models that predict the so-called “point of no return” at different points in time given the current parameters. Some do indeed presume we are already there, but they’re not the majority.
Keep in mind we are not talking about “species lost forever” as this is already true. We are talking about the point where the forest can no longer sustain itself.
great news, but we need to start restoring the amazon rainforest
I live in an area that was 95% cleared of rainforest. Our clearing rate is now near zero (but not zero), much success for everyone.
Are we going to restore it?
No. Farmers don’t want to.
we need to kick the farmers out of the former amazon.
Hahahahaha try that in Brazil and they won’t find you anywhere
fun fact australia is clearing Forrest (including old growth rainforests) faster than the Amazon and has been for quite a while now. No one seems to give a fuck. and most Australians don’t even know it’s happening.
In a world so bleak, this is maybe one of the very few uplifting news.
