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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by myeviltwin on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:17PM (#20779927)
Other countries should indeed have put in financial effort to make sure this ecosystem is preserved. It might be too late now.
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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by marcosdumay on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:25PM (#20780808)
> It might be too late now.

Why this? Are you expecting some unavoidable global phenomenon to take the forest down?

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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by myeviltwin on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:12PM (#20782635)
At certain levels of deforestation the Amazon rainforest ecosystem is believed to break down, turn into savannah:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaat2340

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Re:Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal by marcosdumay on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:53PM (#20783540)
Those fires are way too localized to do something like this.
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