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Dear MEL Topic Readers,
‘Football pitch’ of Amazon forest lost every minute
The Amazon rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. Roughly 60% of the forest is contained in Brazil, 13% in Peru, 10% in Colombia, and the rest in the other six countries. It represents over half of the Earth’s rainforests and is the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest. The forest’s billions of trees absorb a huge amount of carbon dioxide and produce oxygen in return, whose process slows the rise in global temperatures.
Until Bolsonaro, nicknamed “the Trump of the Tropics” was elected the president, Brazil had been serious and strict in conserving the rainforest. But the administration abruptly loosened the guard and now about the size of a football field of the forest is being lost every minute. And much of the cleared land is covered with grass to raise cows, which on average release around 100 kg of Methane per year, a greenhouse gas whose negative effect on climate is much higher than carbon dioxide.
And what will happen to one million indigenous people who live in and depend everything on the rainforest? It is also home to the world’s richest biodiversity with nearly one-tenth of all species of animals and plants. A single election result is going to change the future of the most valuable and vital resource of the planet.
Read the article and think if an elected president should have almighty power over the environment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48827490
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