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When people tell you the Amazon is the "lungs of the earth" they are just wrong.

The Amazon, like all other ecosystems, produce as much oxygen as they consume, thus their net production is about zero

yadvindermalhi.org/blog/does-the-…
So, yes, Macron is just awfully wrong


(and his picture is over 20 years old, nytimes.com/2019/08/23/wor…)
Broeker pointed out long ago, that even if all plants, on land as well as at sea, were killed off and then decomposed, the process would consume less than 1 percent of the atmosphere’s oxygen

science.sciencemag.org/content/168/39…
Here again, it is confirmed that the Amazon produces no net oxygen

theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
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