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by hannob 2495 days ago
This article completely fails to mention a very important issue: Scientists are worried that the amazon may approach a tipping point after which the ecosystem will completely collapse.

The guardian has a better take on the story: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/amazon-f...

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Sounds likely to me. If you mess around with any ecosystem enough it will change unpredictably
I hope you do realize your comment is about as rational as dark ages priests and peasants blaming villager’s sins for the bad harvesting ( i don’t mean to pick a personnal fight with you in particular, just that your opinion seems very widespread even on this forum, and it worries me)
Blah I said “sounds likely”. Is this priests said in the Middle Ages