The Amazon rainforest is on fire
The Amazon rainforest has been burning for the past 17 days at a record rate . Earlier this month, Brazil declared a state of emergency over the rising number of fires in the region. So far this year, almost 73,000 fires have been detected by Brazil's space research center, INPE. Ricardo Galvão, the director of the INPE, was fired Aug. 2 after defending data that showed deforestation was 88% higher in June than it was a year ago, CNN reported.
The fire was started in order to clear out the land for farming and cattle raising, for that reason, a vast majority of the fires can be attributed to humans, Christian Poirier, program director of the nonprofit Amazon Watch, told CNN.
The Amazon belongs to Brazil and European countries can mind their own business because they have already destroyed their own environment, said Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who also described his own government’s satellite data showing an alarming rise in deforestation as “lies”. He also accused environmental NGOs (non-governmental organizations) of setting fires in the Amazon to embarass his government.
You can see the smoke from space. The European Union Earth Observation Program's Sentinel satellites captured images of "significant amounts of smoke" over Amazonas, Rondonia and other areas. The skies darkened over San Paulo, Brazil, for an hour Monday afternoon after a cold front caused winds to shift and carry smoke from about 1,700 miles away.
I don`t know what is more surprising, that we didn`t know anything about the fires until 2 weeks later it started or that people like Bolsonaro are the ones who rule and represent entire countries. If we continue like this our planet will change completely, and we will regret it.
The fire was started in order to clear out the land for farming and cattle raising, for that reason, a vast majority of the fires can be attributed to humans, Christian Poirier, program director of the nonprofit Amazon Watch, told CNN.
The Amazon belongs to Brazil and European countries can mind their own business because they have already destroyed their own environment, said Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who also described his own government’s satellite data showing an alarming rise in deforestation as “lies”. He also accused environmental NGOs (non-governmental organizations) of setting fires in the Amazon to embarass his government.
You can see the smoke from space. The European Union Earth Observation Program's Sentinel satellites captured images of "significant amounts of smoke" over Amazonas, Rondonia and other areas. The skies darkened over San Paulo, Brazil, for an hour Monday afternoon after a cold front caused winds to shift and carry smoke from about 1,700 miles away.
I don`t know what is more surprising, that we didn`t know anything about the fires until 2 weeks later it started or that people like Bolsonaro are the ones who rule and represent entire countries. If we continue like this our planet will change completely, and we will regret it.
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