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by gleglegle 2477 days ago
Just because the bleeding is less worse than it was in the early 2000s doesn’t mean the bleeding is good.
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This is the biggest I issue I have with how the story has been reported.

The real story is that we have been burning the rain forests for so long that the ability for the forests to remove carbon has been dramatically depleted. We have been burning the forests for decades and now we are using them up.

woops. fires are also essential for the renewal of the ecosystem. Of course, not the ones started purposefully
It depends on the type of ecosystem