Efeitos Perversos da Destruição das Florestas

Bill McKibben, artigo de opinião

The Amazon rainforests are on fire. Brazil's Trump-like president, Jair Bolsonaro, is to blame.

«(…) when you cut down a forest, you remove the most effective means of scrubbing those greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The Amazon is often colloquially referred to as the “lungs of the planet,” and the trees that inhabit it breathe in vast amounts of the carbon dioxide that we produce, returning oxygen in its place. Hacking away at those lungs is dangerous for any organism, the earth included…»

«(…)In a world already on the brink of massive warming from fossil fuel combustion, the loss of the greatest carbon sink on the planet is simply too much to bear. Brazil has a responsibility not only to its own citizens but also to the entire earth. Bolsonaro’s tantrums, like Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accords, damages not just his own nation for a few years; it also imperils the entire earth for millennia to come.»

Alerta, "A Floresta Amazónica está a arder!"

                          South America in Flames: The Amazon Rainforest Is BURNING!
"Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay: Three countries are currently burning a vast area of ​​the Amazon. The smoke is so strong that you can even see it from outer space. Another catastrophe that has received too little attention so far."

«Em qualquer uma das nossas deliberações, deveremos ter sempre em consideração o impacto das nossas decisões para as sete gerações que nos sucederem.»
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