The problem is not loss of oxygen from just the Amazon, but the loss of all oxygen by burning all fossil fuel left from ancient prehistoric forests …
" … This is what we are burning at Earth’s surface today. We’re not just burning down the Amazon. We’re burning down all the forests in Earth history that we can get our hands on. For every worrying part per million that CO2 goes up from burning fossil fuels, atmospheric oxygen goes down an equivalent amount, and then some. As a result, oxygen is dropping far faster from burning fossil fuels, and their untold forests, than it is from burning just the trees available on the planet’s surface. We’re reversing tens of millions of years of photosynthesis all at once. …"
Masterskrain Premium Member over 4 years ago
ANYTHING for those Corporate profits, huh??
lobo1939 over 4 years ago
Brazilian farmers are clearing land to grow soybeans for the Chinese market.
retpost over 4 years ago
Change my comment to lobo1939, it will take many generations if it works at all
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
Its team destroy the world for profit.
superposition over 4 years ago
The problem is not loss of oxygen from just the Amazon, but the loss of all oxygen by burning all fossil fuel left from ancient prehistoric forests …
" … This is what we are burning at Earth’s surface today. We’re not just burning down the Amazon. We’re burning down all the forests in Earth history that we can get our hands on. For every worrying part per million that CO2 goes up from burning fossil fuels, atmospheric oxygen goes down an equivalent amount, and then some. As a result, oxygen is dropping far faster from burning fossil fuels, and their untold forests, than it is from burning just the trees available on the planet’s surface. We’re reversing tens of millions of years of photosynthesis all at once. …"
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fire-earth-has-plenty-oxygen/596923/
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
playing with fire…
FrankSF Premium Member over 4 years ago
I have no hope left for our species. Those two evil idiots are the result of our turning the fate of our species over to corporations.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
Whatever they are going to farm will be nothing compared to whatever they are destroying in the rain forests. The soil is poor for crops.