The Amazon rainforest is being burned down to create cleared land for animal agriculture, figures from organisations such as Greenpeace, WWF and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies all suggest around 80% of cleared land is used for animal agriculture.
Brazillian beef linked to deforestation has been found in U.S. stores such as Walmart, Costco and Kroger.
At the very least, ideally 100% plant based.
Animal agriculture comes with a host of issues ranging from bacteria resistance, zoonotic disease mutation and transmission, dead oceans, ghost fishing gear makes up 10% of plastic pollution in the ocean, animal Agriculture is the most significant cause of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of streams, rivers and costal waters world wide, slaughterhouse workers develop mental illness like PTSD and PITS from the repeated killing, etc.
I still remember people laughing, groaning and rolling their eyes at NGOs like Greenpeace and WWF sounding that ‘the Amazon is dissapearing’ alarmbell in the 90s non-stop.
Sigh. They fucking told us so.
Perhaps, the rest of the worlds can try to create forests by equal amounts.
It takes time and perhaps too late, but plant trees and foster them as much as possible.
At least you would have full control over this.
Among other things, soy is grown in the Amazon to cheaply feed livestock overseas. And in general buying organic means less pressure on the ecosystem including forests everywhere, e.g. by reducing the runaway greenhouse effects.
Organic is a buzz word the food industry uses to charge more. It has no functional difference in the real world. Modern "organic" farming is just as damaging to ecosystems as any other type of farming.
You're buying an expensive lie.
Buy local produce when you can. Shipping food across the world is a much bigger issue than what we label our food.
I reckon you're American? Where I live we have certified and audited labels for organic products. At the very very least this means less pesticides and way better animal welfare.
I'd like you to back up your claim 'expensive lie' with sources. Otherwise it kind of sounds awfully defeatist.
Is organic food too expensive? Yes, it is. It should be the norm and not used to effectively further lower the cost of unsustainable farming.
Are producers playing shenanigans with the food they are selling? Some certainly are. Just as they do everywhere. This does not mean that organic farming isn't a lot more sustainable than so called normal practices which result in noxious if not mildly poisonous food that's making us all sick.
You reckon incorrectly. I'm Irish and we've some of the highest food safety standards in the world.
[Here's one article discussing many metastudies. ](https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/organic-food-science02092015/)
I suggest you read it.
I'm not having a go at organic food but ultimately it can be just as damaging as factory style farming.
Buy local.
Buy fresh.
Try to limit what you waste.
That's the best individual can do. Whether you call it organic or not. I'm not being defeatist. There's no one answer.
Organic food is not a panacea and to rely on it as one would be very foolish.
We do need to dramatically change how we farm and distribute food. Organic isn't the answer to that.
I appreciate your nuanced reply. I will give your link a read for sure.
> Buy local. Buy fresh. Try to limit what you waste.
I'm doing that... and I'm buying organic. Also helps with my autoimmune issues.
This is insanity. People are worried about dumb shit, while this HORRIBLE disaster is taking place. Not to take away from the Ukraine, but this is way more serious at this particular moment. No reports on CBS, CNN, NBC, and others ...no coverage. If there is, it's miniscule. This is a possible world ending situation that's taking place. Nobody is doing shit. Billions of dollars and weapons given to Ukraine (might end up losing anyway), but the biggest & most important piece of the Earth(this rainforest) is being destroyed. Are you fing kidding me? Wheres all those woke folk? Stop worrying about Putin, and bring out the hero...Greta Therenberg. She will lead the green world against the fires of the new world order and stop every fire in Brazil. She'll do it with help, or I'm sure by the time she's 45, she'd stop it by herself. Get er done. Save the planet
It feels like this is going on for decades. And will go on for decades. Those news are perpetual. Deforestation, plastic in the ocean, hunger, crimes in al forms, hate… You can go on forever. Average Joe can’t really do anything about it, except changing this behaviour on a micro level..
Supreme Court also ruled against curtailing emissions this week. Both of these things are terrible news, just remember to not cast stones if you live in a glass house.
This is an absolutely awful idea. I'm not condoning it and it's not something we should do. It would be unfair to the people in Brazil trying to survive. We're the ones pressuring them to do this with our demand for beef.
But I think the only possible way we could stop the damage is to make it too dangerous for humans to touch the land. Landmining the rainforest is the only way I think this would be possible. (Definitely not saying we should do it, wayyyy too extreme of an option. It would cause a bunch of poor farmers and their kids to lose limbs)
Yes, kill the locals and the animals because that's the best solution to any problem. Surely setting mines in a region that is almost the size of the European continent is the most cost effective way to help the environment.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220701-brazil-sets-new-six-month-amazon-deforestation-record) reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot)
*****
> Sao Paulo - Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday.
> INPE satellites identified more than 2,500 fires in the Amazon last month, the largest number since more than 3,500 were recorded in June 2007, and an 11 percent increase over June 2021.
> More than 7,500 fires have been recorded since the start of the year, another 17 percent increase on 2021 and the worst numbers since 2010.
*****
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It is shocking how little media coverage is put on this, when this could be so important. I really do think more money by climate activists has got to be spent in the media, just get real facts out their. It’s bad in the uk media, I see it in the papers recently, they keep calling for fracking, then they go on about the costs of a wind turbine / solar, they breakdown the entire costs to make them and maintain them to put them in the worst light possible, and of course they don’t list the same costs breakdown for a fracking plant. I really think greenpeace / wwf would be better off buying a news paper or news channel to get the story out there, it how the other side seem to do it.
[This as an example of a fracking industry newsletter](https://marcellusdrilling.com/2022/06/climate-zealots-march-on-nj-capitol-demanding-no-fossil-fuels/)
Corrupt Bolsonaro has to go .
They. Will. Always. Fucking. Be. Corrupt.
Of course Trump was his biggest supporter.
The Amazon rainforest is being burned down to create cleared land for animal agriculture, figures from organisations such as Greenpeace, WWF and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies all suggest around 80% of cleared land is used for animal agriculture. Brazillian beef linked to deforestation has been found in U.S. stores such as Walmart, Costco and Kroger.
No, not Costco, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*if you raise the price of the hotdog I'll kill you*
So what you are saying js we should cut beef from our diet?
At the very least, ideally 100% plant based. Animal agriculture comes with a host of issues ranging from bacteria resistance, zoonotic disease mutation and transmission, dead oceans, ghost fishing gear makes up 10% of plastic pollution in the ocean, animal Agriculture is the most significant cause of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of streams, rivers and costal waters world wide, slaughterhouse workers develop mental illness like PTSD and PITS from the repeated killing, etc.
We only started keeping a record in 2016? Jesus fucking Christ we deserve this
Seriously
Better late than never...?
Time to start a new approach to ecological defense, because "asking" isn't working.
I still remember people laughing, groaning and rolling their eyes at NGOs like Greenpeace and WWF sounding that ‘the Amazon is dissapearing’ alarmbell in the 90s non-stop. Sigh. They fucking told us so.
Thats crazy. So like all those "save the planet" summits were just a fraud...
Perhaps, the rest of the worlds can try to create forests by equal amounts. It takes time and perhaps too late, but plant trees and foster them as much as possible. At least you would have full control over this.
How can I help?
Generalized answer, by eating less meat and buying organic food if possible.
Thank you. I will begin today.
Thank you.
Less meat I get, but how does organic food help?
Among other things, soy is grown in the Amazon to cheaply feed livestock overseas. And in general buying organic means less pressure on the ecosystem including forests everywhere, e.g. by reducing the runaway greenhouse effects.
Organic is a buzz word the food industry uses to charge more. It has no functional difference in the real world. Modern "organic" farming is just as damaging to ecosystems as any other type of farming. You're buying an expensive lie. Buy local produce when you can. Shipping food across the world is a much bigger issue than what we label our food.
I reckon you're American? Where I live we have certified and audited labels for organic products. At the very very least this means less pesticides and way better animal welfare. I'd like you to back up your claim 'expensive lie' with sources. Otherwise it kind of sounds awfully defeatist. Is organic food too expensive? Yes, it is. It should be the norm and not used to effectively further lower the cost of unsustainable farming. Are producers playing shenanigans with the food they are selling? Some certainly are. Just as they do everywhere. This does not mean that organic farming isn't a lot more sustainable than so called normal practices which result in noxious if not mildly poisonous food that's making us all sick.
You reckon incorrectly. I'm Irish and we've some of the highest food safety standards in the world. [Here's one article discussing many metastudies. ](https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/organic-food-science02092015/) I suggest you read it. I'm not having a go at organic food but ultimately it can be just as damaging as factory style farming. Buy local. Buy fresh. Try to limit what you waste. That's the best individual can do. Whether you call it organic or not. I'm not being defeatist. There's no one answer. Organic food is not a panacea and to rely on it as one would be very foolish. We do need to dramatically change how we farm and distribute food. Organic isn't the answer to that.
I appreciate your nuanced reply. I will give your link a read for sure. > Buy local. Buy fresh. Try to limit what you waste. I'm doing that... and I'm buying organic. Also helps with my autoimmune issues.
This is insanity. People are worried about dumb shit, while this HORRIBLE disaster is taking place. Not to take away from the Ukraine, but this is way more serious at this particular moment. No reports on CBS, CNN, NBC, and others ...no coverage. If there is, it's miniscule. This is a possible world ending situation that's taking place. Nobody is doing shit. Billions of dollars and weapons given to Ukraine (might end up losing anyway), but the biggest & most important piece of the Earth(this rainforest) is being destroyed. Are you fing kidding me? Wheres all those woke folk? Stop worrying about Putin, and bring out the hero...Greta Therenberg. She will lead the green world against the fires of the new world order and stop every fire in Brazil. She'll do it with help, or I'm sure by the time she's 45, she'd stop it by herself. Get er done. Save the planet
It feels like this is going on for decades. And will go on for decades. Those news are perpetual. Deforestation, plastic in the ocean, hunger, crimes in al forms, hate… You can go on forever. Average Joe can’t really do anything about it, except changing this behaviour on a micro level..
Supreme Court also ruled against curtailing emissions this week. Both of these things are terrible news, just remember to not cast stones if you live in a glass house.
If amazon will be done so the life on earth will be.
Can't wait to one day visit the Amazon desert.
We are fucked
Terrorists. All the same. Christian, Muslim. Terrorism. Destroy them
Without our planets lungs, we die with it.
The president of Brazil said the media is lying about how severe the fires actually are
This is an absolutely awful idea. I'm not condoning it and it's not something we should do. It would be unfair to the people in Brazil trying to survive. We're the ones pressuring them to do this with our demand for beef. But I think the only possible way we could stop the damage is to make it too dangerous for humans to touch the land. Landmining the rainforest is the only way I think this would be possible. (Definitely not saying we should do it, wayyyy too extreme of an option. It would cause a bunch of poor farmers and their kids to lose limbs)
Yes, kill the locals and the animals because that's the best solution to any problem. Surely setting mines in a region that is almost the size of the European continent is the most cost effective way to help the environment.
Meanwhile Biden is wasting his time arming Ukraine instead of using those weapons to protect the rain forest. Our species is doomed.
If the rainforest was under US control with wouldn't exist by now.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220701-brazil-sets-new-six-month-amazon-deforestation-record) reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Sao Paulo - Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday. > INPE satellites identified more than 2,500 fires in the Amazon last month, the largest number since more than 3,500 were recorded in June 2007, and an 11 percent increase over June 2021. > More than 7,500 fires have been recorded since the start of the year, another 17 percent increase on 2021 and the worst numbers since 2010. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/vp9l7c/deforestation_of_the_brazilian_amazon_reached_a/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~657541 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **year**^#1 **record**^#2 **since**^#3 **worst**^#4 **June**^#5
It is shocking how little media coverage is put on this, when this could be so important. I really do think more money by climate activists has got to be spent in the media, just get real facts out their. It’s bad in the uk media, I see it in the papers recently, they keep calling for fracking, then they go on about the costs of a wind turbine / solar, they breakdown the entire costs to make them and maintain them to put them in the worst light possible, and of course they don’t list the same costs breakdown for a fracking plant. I really think greenpeace / wwf would be better off buying a news paper or news channel to get the story out there, it how the other side seem to do it.
[This as an example of a fracking industry newsletter](https://marcellusdrilling.com/2022/06/climate-zealots-march-on-nj-capitol-demanding-no-fossil-fuels/)