Amazon burning

[duke63]

No not the shitty non-tax paying American company, but the lungs of our planet. And barely a peep on the news.

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[Kwacky]

I dunno, I've seen and heard a lot about it on the news. It was the leading news story yesterday on Radio1.

Nothing will change though. We've known that the rainforests have needed our protection for well over 50 years.

[Jack]

I have read reports that its been burning for 16 weeks

[StMarks]

...... on Radio1..

Down with the kids, impressed.! (I can't listen to R1 for more than about 20mins these days without feeling lost)

Anyway, OP, -You really shouldn't get me started....
All these images of planetary devastation make me sick to my core. For example have you seen those images of the damage due to cotton farming in Madagascar.?

Russian deforestation also gets very little coverage (up to 70% of their lumbar exports are from illegal logging ! ) . FYI their forest area is actually greater than that of the Amazon rainforest.

Imho global control of the Human race is the only way we are going to prevent our species destroying itself.
However the growth & direction across most societies is still towards consumerism & liberalism.???
It seems to me that the only state with large scale responsible social control comes in for constant & almost universal criticism.

[kiwikrasher]

It’s on mainstream news here since yesterday.

But nothing on mainstream about the Serbian fires a few weeks ago. Like St Marks pointed out, just as big an environmental catastrophe.

[D41]

The Amazon is one of the largest forests in the world....only the Taiga is bigger, and that crosses different continents....it's not contiguous, in other words....and it's arctic.
So doesn't it stand to reason that there will be a lot of forest fires there (the Amazon)?? I mean, I bet there's THOUSANDS of forest fires there every year...if not tens of thousands???

[Kwacky]

These are man made. There's double the usual level of forest fires for this time of the year.

[C00kiemonster]

It just saddens me to think of the sheer level of wildlife this will kill or displace. Criminal acts of the highest order.

[duke63]

[D41]

Oh, how pretty!!

Bottom line is they're clearing out rainforest to make way for agriculture, for food, to feed a 200-million+ (and growing) population.
I guess they think human life is more important than plant life. They might be on to something.

[duke63]

Without plant life, we wont last very long either.

[D41]

Indeed.....and at some point we're going to reach critical mass in terms of overpopulation & continued sustainability.....some researchers seem to think that we may have already passed the point-of-no-return in that regard. It has to happen sooner or later.

[StMarks]

Indeed.....and at some point we're going to reach critical mass in terms of overpopulation & continued sustainability.....some researchers seem to think that we may have already passed the point-of-no-return in that regard. It has to happen sooner or later.

The very most humans our planet can sustain, is about one-fith of the current population.
It doesn't take really take "some researchers"
What it does take is a more selfless approach by all of us.
Or put another way,,,,
,,, We're already stuffed,

[D41]

We passed that one-fifth mark over a century ago. So far, so good.

[StMarks]

..... So far, so good.

You can't seriously believe the state of the world is good.?

[Kwacky]

Have long have you known him? He loves a wind up.

[duke63]

Sustainability of the planet and humans on it will be the biggest political issue in ten years time.

Look at the summer Europe has had. Extreme heat and rain.

[D41]

..... So far, so good.

You can't seriously believe the state of the world is good.?

I'm an optimist at heart....I don't think the world is all good, nor do I think it's all doom & gloom either....we're on the good side of the halfway mark is how I see it.

[StMarks]

....we're on the good side of the halfway mark is how I see it.

Very brand-loyal statement, from the form's representative in Trump-land.

[StMarks]

Sustainability of the planet and humans on it will be the biggest political issue in ten years time..

I'm sure it should be Duke. , However the direction of society, coupled with the increasingly self-centred & consumerist attitudes of the Facebook generation, leads me to sadly suspect otherwise,?