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As I keep repeating...anyone saying 'The Amazon is the lungs of the Earth!" is using fake pseudoscience, and should largely be ignored.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
This on the other hand is true:
As the biochemist Nick Lane wrote in his 2003 book Oxygen, “Even the most foolhardy destruction of world forests could hardly dint our oxygen supply, though in other respects such short-sighted idiocy is an unspeakable tragedy.”
As the biochemist Nick Lane wrote in his 2003 book Oxygen, “Even the most foolhardy destruction of world forests could hardly dint our oxygen supply, though in other respects such short-sighted idiocy is an unspeakable tragedy.”
“What would happen if we combusted every living cell on Earth?”...
After this unthinkable planetary immolation, concentration of O2 dropped from 20.9% to 20.4%. CO2 rose from 400 ppm to 900—less, even, than it does in the worst-case scenarios for fossil-fuel emissions by 2100."
After this unthinkable planetary immolation, concentration of O2 dropped from 20.9% to 20.4%. CO2 rose from 400 ppm to 900—less, even, than it does in the worst-case scenarios for fossil-fuel emissions by 2100."
"For every CO2 goes up from burning fossil fuels, O2 goes down equivalent amount...As a result, oxygen is dropping far faster from burning fossil fuels than it is from burning just the trees available on the Earth. We’re reversing millions of years of photosynthesis all at once."
"Luckily, unlike CO2, we measure O2 not in ppm, but in parts per hundred..we have been gifted such an absurd surplus of oxygen by deep geological time, and by strange ancient life we’ll never know, that it won’t soon run out by our own hand, whether by deforestation or industry"
