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The possibility that tropical rainforests have gone beyond a fragmentation-drought-fire tipping point and are heading towards destruction is almost completely missing from public discourse.

What will be the point in talking about it once it's definitely TOO LATE?

Why be silent?
A 2017 fragmentation study showed the world's rainforests were possibly several years away from inevitable collapse.

Several years later, fragmentation is still getting worse.

Amazon Rainforest experts say it's at a tipping point, but could yet be saved.salon.com/2018/04/09/tro…
The Amazon region 'has been so degraded that even a small uptick in deforestation could send the forest hurtling toward a transition to something resembling a woodland savanna, according to an analysis last year by two top scientists'
nationalgeographic.com/environment/20…
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