“There is one part of the world that may affect the speed of climate change sooner than any other nightmarish issue, even while it is a place that still appears lush and relatively healthy: the Amazon rainforest.”
in the atmosphere. But there is one part of the world that may affect the speed of climate change sooner than any of these other nightmarish issues, even while it is a place that still appears lush and relatively healthy: the Amazon rainforest.this week, that the Amazon may reach a “tipping point” of no return sooner than anyone had previously thought, and that this shift will be catastrophic for the planet.
“As a scientist, I am not supposed to have anxiety,” Carlos Nobre, a climate scientist at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Advanced StudiesAlong with calamitous atmospheric changes, passing the Amazon’s tipping point would mean a cataclysmic loss of biodiversity — more thanof plants and animals live in the rainforest — as well as a loss of livelihoods for the indigenous people who rely on its wildlife to eat and sell and its plant life for shelter and medicine, not to mention its...
“When you have almost half of the intact forest in the Amazon in Indigenous and Afro-descendant territories, then they have to be a big part of any discussion about a tipping point,” David Kaimowitz, manager of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Forest and Farm Facility,Unfortunately, Kaimowitz said, government support for these indigenous territories is declining “at a time when they should be increasing dramatically.
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