The politics of rain-forest fires Archived Message
Posted by Tomski on August 26, 2019, 4:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Amazon fires explained: what are they, why are they so damaging, and how can we stop them?"
https://thesaker.is/amazonia-in-flames-brazils-bolsonaro-is-a-world-criminal-encouraging-jungle-burning-for-private-exploitation-of-freed-land/ An interesting snippet: While the Brazil fires catch world attention, there are jungle fires even larger than those in Amazonia burning down other parts of the world’s oxygen-generating lungs. Bloomberg cites NASA data, according to which last Thursday and Friday, 22 an 23 August – in two days alone – more than 6,900 fires were recorded in Angola and about 3,400 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), about 5 times as many as in the same two days in the Brazilian Amazon region. The destruction of the jungle in Africa progresses virtually unnoticed and is hardly reported in western media.
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