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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by astine on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:35PM (#20930052)
Because of the sequestration of carbon in the forest. If you burn the forest down, all of the carbon in the forest is released into the atmosphere in the form of smoke.
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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by leephillips on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:18PM (#20935666)
I was thinking it must be that, but I was too lazy to try to quantify it. Thank you.
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