[gdubs]

This thread feels politically toxic. The discussions seems to be heavily focused on a “gotcha”, exploiting a kind of Guilt By Association fallacy to minimize the disturbing event unfolding in the Amazon.

“The lungs of the world” is a poetic phrase. Trying to make it literal diminishes it, by giving cynics a small thread to pull on until it unravels — while in the process ignoring all the other ways in which the Amazon is important.

A vibrant discussion of the original post would be relevant — using the misaccounting as a cudgel against environmentalists and journalism as a whole is explicitly not the spirit of HN.