There was a 25% decrease in the amount of land area that was burned from 2003 to 2019, thanks to economic development.
photos and information they have spread about the Amazon.Celebrities and the mainstream news media have advanced an apocalyptic narrative of fires in places like the Amazon as violent intrusions on nature. This picture is false.
As for the myth that the Amazon is the"lungs of the Earth" providing"20% of the world's oxygen," it appears to have been invented by a "In the 1960s, when 'lungs of the earth' was the big reason to save the rain forest," Sagoff told me yesterday,"I got interested in it as a scientific question. I found no evidence that any tropical rainforest contributes to the net oxygen budget of the world."BioScience.
That claim was incorrect and debunked as early as 1970 by climatologist Wallace S. Broecker writing for "In almost all grocery lists of man's environmental problems is found an item regarding oxygen supply," wrote Broeker."Fortunately for mankind, the supply is not vanishing as some have predicted."
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