The Amazon Forest Has Been Burning For Weeks And NASA Shares Photos From Space

I once read a story about a young girl walking on a beach that had millions of starfish washed up. She was picking up one at a time and throwing them back into the ocean while others watched on in amusement. Finally a man asked why she was bothering, she could never make a difference. She picked up another, threw it into the ocean and said "I made a difference for that one". He began to help, and one by one, everyone else started to pitch in and eventually there were no starfish left. I agree it's discouraging with the shape our world is in at the moment, but it only takes ONE person to lead the change.

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But you can easily make a difference, it will just require you to make changes you’re unwilling to make.

Acting like you know the reason for something that scientists can't pinpoint appears to be pretty arrogant and that is likely why people are downvoting.

your sheer willful ignorance is seriously alarming. Do you not realize that huge tracts have been deforested, then filled with elephant grass so it can't even recover? Do you realize that species and indigenous populations have lived harmoniously for millennia until the need to feed cattle and grow things like soy preempted it? Of course fires were natural. Jesus H F*****g Christ. The ignorance is astounding.

These aren't natural forest fires. These are people deliberately burning the Rainforests so they can farm cattle and mine for rare minerals. We need the natural diversity and carbon dioxide absorption that they offer.

There's nothing normal when a RAINforest is burning! There's nothing normal when Sibiria is burning, there's nothing normal when Europe is burning, there's nothing normal with temperatures so high flying animals drop dead from the sky!

I realize the fires could be natural, my reaction was more to the fact the president "vowed" to mine and farm the Amazon

Ranching of cattle and other livestock, agriculture, and not just for human food. Same reasons as from the earlier decades, but more in the spirit of the California Gold Rush of the 19th century in what later became part of the US. Local peasant farmers are not trained in controlled burns, so here we are with runaway forest fires. This crisis has reached the “front pages” of most legitimate news outlets now, so you can look to them for detailed play-by-play reporting and backstory, or if you have correspondence with people living nearby, better yet.