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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.
Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air & giving fresh strength to our people.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Year2050
#AmazonRainforest will only be remembered in pictures

We burned our lungsšŸŒŽ for #BEEF

#Vegan bc šŸ‘‡ Image
šŸŒ“ #AmazonRainforest Has Lost More Than ā–¶Ten Millionā—€ Football Fields of Forest in a Decade
THIS #rainforest is responsible for storing overĀ 180 BILLION tonsĀ of carbon
With #deforestationĀ that carbon is releasedĀ back into the atmosphere

#EndAnimalAg

smithsonianmag.com/science-natureā€¦
#DYK
šŸ’§ "One-fifth of the worldā€™s fresh #waterĀ is in the #AmazonBasin, supplying water to the world by releasing water vapor into the atmosphere thatĀ can travelĀ thousands of miles"

Meanwhile governments šŸŒšŸŒšŸŒŽ & politicians ignore #AmazonBurning
āž”šŸ®

smithsonianmag.com/science-natureā€¦
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@EmmanuelMacron The image on the left shows a fire from 1989, and the image on the right has been online since at least 2012. A number of other outdated and unrelated photographs have also been circulated as if they depicted the 2019 #AmazonFires.
snopes.com/fact-check/amaā€¦
@EmmanuelMacron Plankton that are plants, known as #phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the worldā€™s oxygen. They need #CO2 to thrive.
eos.org/research-spotlā€¦
@EmmanuelMacron Many use fire to maintain farmland or to clear land.
Typically, activity peaks in early Sept & mostly stops by Nov.
#NASA satellite data indicates total fire activity across the #AmazonBasin this year has been close to the average of the past 15 years.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/ā€¦
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