Amazon Rainforest burning

Klunk1234 · 08-29-2019, 09:33 PM

A huge tragedy! The lungs of the planet have been in fire for more than 17 days. I hope they can be extinguished soon.

*Original TMNT Cartoon Fan* · 08-30-2019, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Klunk1234

A huge tragedy! The lungs of the planet have been in fire for more than 17 days. I hope they can be extinguished soon.

The wildfires in Brazil began already in January 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_A...rest_wildfires

*Coola Yagami* · 08-30-2019, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Klunk1234

A huge tragedy! The lungs of the planet have been in fire for more than 17 days. I hope they can be extinguished soon.

Sadly people care more about chicken sandwiches. My god, we deserve to have our planet explode, don't we?

*Andrew NDB* · 08-30-2019, 09:53 AM

Sounds like this is more or less on par with what happens there every year.

https://medium.com/vizzuality-blog/t...l-5fa430a7880e

I also remember as a kid reading TMNT Adventures #14 and #15 and Jagwar's speech about all the acres being burned everyday and thinking to myself it would all be gone in, like, weeks. I've been pretty skeptical about "oh noes, the Amazon is going away!" news ever since.

Sidenote: the "Amazon Fire" TV promotions everywhere seem suddenly very awkward.

*CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy* · 08-30-2019, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Sidenote: the "Amazon Fire" TV promotions everywhere seem suddenly very awkward.

Love it.

*Andrew NDB* · 08-30-2019, 10:27 AM

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Love it.

"Hot deal." Yikes.

*Prowler* · 08-30-2019, 11:16 AM

The Amazon is the Earth's "lung",basically. So it's definitely a terrible thing. Plus, the Amazon has been getting slowly destroyed for ages now. So it's only a matter of time until it's completely gone, I'm afraid.

~~Sumac~~ · 08-30-2019, 12:49 PM

Forest fires are a normal thing. If humans won't meddle with their "creative" solutions in couple of years thing will be fine.

*Prowler* · 08-31-2019, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Sumac

Forest fires are a normal thing. If humans won't meddle with their "creative" solutions in couple of years thing will be fine.

Sure, but this one seems to have gotten out of control. In such a massive forest, a fire can easily spread for kilometres until it's finally detected by someone.

*Papenbrook* · 09-01-2019, 01:25 PM

Such a tragic loss of forest-life.

Hopefully, it will eventually recover and heal.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 09-02-2019, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Sumac

Forest fires are a normal thing. If humans won't meddle with their "creative" solutions in couple of years thing will be fine.

Not in the Amazon. Read an article that basically there is no such thing as a "natural" fire in the rainforest, and that any fires there are human-caused. And these, apparently, WERE. Started by industrial/logging companies for deforestation to clear land (and also to root out some native tribes), and got out of control due to drier than normal conditions (also caused by human activity). This is NOT "normal!

*Redeemer* · 09-02-2019, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sumac

Forest fires are a normal thing. If humans won't meddle with their "creative" solutions in couple of years thing will be fine.

This fire was man made. Small forest fires are natural if the forest become over-grown I believe??? (Sorry not an ecology expert) But regardless this was man made.

Klunk1234 · 09-03-2019, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Redeemer

This fire was man made. Small forest fires are natural if the forest become over-grown I believe??? (Sorry not an ecology expert) But regardless this was man made.

Yes, they are. But they are not prescribed fires, but arson.

*Andrew NDB* · 10-23-2019, 11:24 AM

Did they ever put out these fires? I'm assuming they did, but I haven't seen any news report. I also notice we're not suffocating to death yet.

*IMJ* · 10-23-2019, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Did they ever put out these fires? I'm assuming they did, but I haven't seen any news report. I also notice we're not suffocating to death yet.

The science regarding how the Earth creates oxygen is pretty amazing stuff. It's not an ongoing daily process. It's actually a build up after accumulation of carbon in plants, to a nearly singular seasonal event whereby the planet takes a "breath" every year around Fall.

*Powder* · 10-23-2019, 12:41 PM

Burning? Some rainforest, sounds more like a fireforest or somethin' to me, tss.

*IMJ* · 10-23-2019, 06:32 PM

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Burning? Some rainforest, sounds more like a fireforest or somethin' to me, tss.

grroooaannnnnnnn.....

*Voltron* · 10-24-2019, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Did they ever put out these fires? I'm assuming they did, but I haven't seen any news report. I also notice we're not suffocating to death yet.

1. No, they haven't. The size of the fires were not only considerable, the cause was cattle ranchers carving out new pastures for herds.

2. That's not how the ecosystem works.

Science is usually boiled down for us to digest. Unfortunately, we lose a lot of the nuance from that process. It's easy to turn "a considerable amount of our atmosphere is conditioned by metabolic processes occurring in the South American rain forest" into "we're all going to run out of oxygen, stop eating hamburgers".

That's obviously not the case. We're not all going to die because someone uses hairspray or drives an 8-cylinder car. The issue is that with continued abuse of the planet's resources, we risk our overall quality of life.

*Andrew NDB* · 10-24-2019, 01:47 AM

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1. No, they haven't. The size of the fires were not only considerable, the cause was cattle ranchers carving out new pastures for herds.

Seriously? I'm not yanking your chain, because no one is reporting on this. For several months now a mass fire has been raging there, unstopped? Like literally for months?

*Voltron* · 10-25-2019, 05:46 AM

A quick search turned up this from the BBC.

It is still on fire, yes. It's not unsurprising when the size of the rain forest is taken into account. Compare it to the California wildfires that rage for months on end. These types of things take a lot of resources and manpower to get under control, let alone stop completely.

08-30-2019, 09:53 AM	#4
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 29,279	Sounds like this is more or less on par with what happens there every year. https://medium.com/vizzuality-blog/t...l-5fa430a7880e I also remember as a kid reading TMNT Adventures #14 and #15 and Jagwar's speech about all the acres being burned everyday and thinking to myself it would all be gone in, like, weeks. I've been pretty skeptical about "oh noes, the Amazon is going away!" news ever since. Sidenote: the "Amazon Fire" TV promotions everywhere seem suddenly very awkward. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

10-23-2019, 12:41 PM	#16
Powder So tired of this place Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Shell Ri La Posts: 26,809	Burning? Some rainforest, sounds more like a fireforest or somethin' to me, tss. __________________ I'm convinced that none of you have ever experienced joy

10-25-2019, 05:46 AM	#20
Voltron Handsomest Boy in School Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The Realm of SJW Posts: 4,642	A quick search turned up this from the BBC. It is still on fire, yes. It's not unsurprising when the size of the rain forest is taken into account. Compare it to the California wildfires that rage for months on end. These types of things take a lot of resources and manpower to get under control, let alone stop completely. __________________ I AM FOR ACTUAL! . . . and the White Savior. . . and the Right Hand of God. . .

08-29-2019, 09:33 PM	#1
Klunk1234 Hench Mutant Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: With the TMNT Posts: 462	Amazon Rainforest burning A huge tragedy! The lungs of the planet have been in fire for more than 17 days. I hope they can be extinguished soon.

08-30-2019, 11:16 AM	#7
Prowler Emperor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Posts: 8,909	The Amazon is the Earth's "lung",basically. So it's definitely a terrible thing. Plus, the Amazon has been getting slowly destroyed for ages now. So it's only a matter of time until it's completely gone, I'm afraid.

08-30-2019, 12:49 PM	#8
~~Sumac~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 6,129	Forest fires are a normal thing. If humans won't meddle with their "creative" solutions in couple of years thing will be fine.

09-01-2019, 01:25 PM	#10
Papenbrook The King of Nothing Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: No comment -_- ... Posts: 2,755	Such a tragic loss of forest-life. Hopefully, it will eventually recover and heal.

10-23-2019, 11:24 AM	#14
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 29,279	Did they ever put out these fires? I'm assuming they did, but I haven't seen any news report. I also notice we're not suffocating to death yet. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]