[tcgv]

This subject has been treated so irresponsibly these past few days that not only people are making inaccurate statements such as "the Amazon provides 20% of our oxygen", but also high profile people such as Emmanuel Macron (France's President) and Cristiano Ronaldo (World famous soccer player) are sharing false information and photos[1]

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http...

[m0zg]

All of US presidential candidates, democratic and republican alike, routinely and knowingly push blatant lies as a part of their platform and nobody blinks an eye. If you went through what they say with a fine toothed comb and removed all the lies, there'd be hardly anything left. People don't care about facts. They care about how a narrative makes them feel. Sad but true.

[ignoramous]

Agree. There's purposefully lying to achieve targets, and ignorantly spreading lies that help someone in addition to lending them credibility and exposure. The latter hurts more than the former: For instance, Cristiano Ronaldo is a much bigger influencer than most Senators or even Hollywood personalities can ever hope to be. I think, people like them need to exercise great caution, if they intend to mean well and not cause harm.

[Dumblydorr]

While it's true most politicians lie or bend facts or report them wrongly, you can not create a false equivalence between them all. Trump lies egregiously and far more than basically any non dictatorial politician. Your stance reminds me of those who said both 2016 candidates were bad, so they didn't vote or voted for the two clown third party candidates.

[m0zg]

The entirety of Hillary Clinton's campaign could be summarized as "it's my turn, orange man bad". I can't vote for that. In 2019 I likewise can't vote for open borders, "free money" for everyone, multi-trillion dollar ill-conceived "green deals", or "reparations", because I'd be the one paying for all this shit. Plus, _all_ democratic presidential candidates made the Charlottesville hoax the centerpiece of their campaign, so they too lie 100% knowingly about it.

[antpls]

Regarding the pictures, many pictures of burning forests were shared on social networks those past few days (eg. Instagram stories).

Those are images of fires to illustrate people's message, they convey the greater concept that we should be aware of the Earth as a global shared system. No one is saying 'look at this picture of the Amazon burning right now' (not even in the Macron's tweet).

Regarding "the Amazon provides 20% of our oxygen", I guess it could be debated, and the biodiversity would probably have been a better argument.

[shkkmo]

> Regarding "the Amazon provides 20% of our oxygen", I guess it could be debated,

I think it is flat out wrong and not really debatable. Also, focusing on oxygen is not the right thing to talk about because we have so much more oxygen than carbon dioxide.

Before we manage to consume significant amounts of our oxygen, we will have released so much carbon dioxide that a slight dip in O2 will not be a concern.

[dev_dull]

It’s almost like these people are more interested in pushing a narrative and not the facts?

[jgeerts]

In present days it's really hard to get factual, correct, unbiased news.

[seppin]

It's almost as if these specific details are wrong but the greater trend is happening, so why fixate on it?