It’s official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There’s already reports of power outages. People can’t work. They can’t run errands. They can barely sleep. It’s not even summer there yet.

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It definitely doesn’t help but it’s not the reason either

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That graph has nothing to do with sequester rates, which is what forests are about.

Forests are a big part of the issue and we need to preserve them.

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Damn, sounds like people should consume less of the soy, meat and minerals produced in that area.

By the way, do you happen to know what happened to the 400 million acres in Europe and 300 million acres in the US that used to be forest in the 1800s?

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Yep, climate change was super well known then too, fantastic point 👍

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What is extremely sad is that Brazil has relatively very low emission and consumption rates

The rich dicks around, the poor pays the price

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Per capital sucks for these stats but the rainforest isn’t about contributing CO2 it’s about capturing it

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Bloody Africa, not providing any data.

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And who knows what Greenland’s up too 🤨

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