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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/20/prayforamazonia-goes-viral-twitter-users-call-attention-international-emergency?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook#PrayForAmazonia Goes Viral as Twitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest
"The Amazon rainforest has been burning for three weeks! We are on the verge of losing it completely if the fire isn't put out. The loss of trees, the loss of biodiversity is what is accelerating climate change."
byJake Johnson,
A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The hashtag #PrayForAmazonia went viral on Tuesday as social media users attempted to draw the world's attention to the Amazon rainforest, which has been devastated for weeks by fires so intense they can be seen from space.
According to Euro News, it is unclear whether the fires were caused by agricultural activity or deforestation. Both have accelerated rapidly under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who made opening the Amazon to corporate exploitation a key plank of his election campaign.
Twitter users on Tuesday slammed the media for paying too little attention to the Amazon blazes, particularly given the essential role the rainforest plays in absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxidea capacity that earned it the nickname "lungs of the world."
"The Amazon has been burning for three weeks, and I'm just now finding out because of the lack of media coverage," wrote one observer. "This is one of the most important ecosystems on Earth."
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Twitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest (Original Post)
G_j
Aug 2019
OP
Chump will be sending a planeload of rakes so the Brazilins can get ahead of the fire.
Totally Tunsie
Aug 2019
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Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)1. Chump will be sending a planeload of rakes so the Brazilins can get ahead of the fire.
It's the least he can do after purposely starting the fire himself. He heard talk of potentially burning Amazon, and thought he could do in Jeff Bezos with the flick of a match. Now he has to cover his misdeed with U.S. philanthropy.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)2. OMG.The enormity of this and its repercussions are all bad
WTF have we let happen?!?!
MSM get off your asses and tell us when the planet is choking! (assholes) WHY didn't you tell us?!
Shouldn't it be raining there soon? Hopefully. It is a "rain"forest, after all.
This is devastating and we are gonna pay for this. The U.S. and other countries should be sending help! It'll help us all.
G_j
(40,372 posts)3. The Alaskan fires
also underreported. Though being in the US, they are at least mentioned.
And there is more, https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-siberia-russia-wildfires/
IcyPeas
(21,910 posts)4. omg, the poor animals