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Why
should everyone around the world be concerned
about the plight of the AMAZON RAIN FOREST?
You might say, I live thousands of miles away,
it has no effect on my life. This is where you
are wrong as the future health of this ecosystem
is critical to the basic life on earth everywhere!
Occupying an area of roughly 1.2 billion acres,
over 50% of the rain forest land of the world
is in Brazil. Because it is so immense, the
area is a key component to the very fabric of
life as we know it on earth. |
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Most scholars would agree that the loss of the entire complex of the Brazilian Rain Forests, dominated by the Amazon Basin, would inevitably cause far-reaching and inconceivable negative climatic consequences around the globe resulting in:
1. Change the weather conditions around the globe.
2. Increase droughts and deserts.
3. Massive starvation for many people around the world.
4. The loss of, easily, millions of plant and animal species, representing roughly ½ of all known (species) on earth. |
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The
Amazon Basin encompasses an area roughly ¾
of the size of the continental United States
and is so huge that it literally creates it´s
own weather. In the process, the air currents
generated by the Amazon Basin affects the
entire South American continent as well as
the weather pattern in the United States.
Acting like a giant vortex, huge air currents
are created which travel north into the Gulf
Stream creating massive movements of pressure
systems. And, the efficiency of the billions
of trees in these rain forests are a critical
link in the production of oxygen and subsequent
absorption of harmful levels of CO2 gases;
far greater here than anywhere else on this
planet. In the process of this CO2-OXYGEN
exchange, this enormous forest produces the
equivalent energy of 6 million atomic bombs
every day. This giant evapo-transpiration
machine is without equal and has certainly
earned itself the nickname the "lungs
of the planet." The world is a living
biosphere and if we lose this essential component
to our home,
we all will suffer in ways we cannot imagine.
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Not just
an international treasure, the AMAZON RAIN
FOREST is far more than that. If you were to lose a treasure, you would consider this event to be just simply a loss of material wealth. But, if we were to completely lose the AMAZON RAIN FOREST than life as we know it would change in ways we can´t even imagine. |
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