IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO SELL LEFTY POLICIES WITHOUT LIES: Forget The Amazon Hype, Fires Globally Have Declined 25% Since 2003 Thanks To Economic Growth. “Any reader of the New York Times and other mainstream media outlet would be forgiven for believing that fires globally are on the rise, but they aren’t. In reality, there was a whopping 25 percent decrease in the area burned from 2003 to 2019, according to NASA. . . . And against the picture painted by celebrities and the mainstream media that fires around the world are caused by economic growth, the truth is the opposite: the amount of land being burned is declining thanks to development, including urbanization. That’s because the amount of land being converted into ranches and farms has been going down, not up, and because more of it is being done with machines than with fire. For the last 35 years, the world has been re-foresting, meaning new tree growth has exceeded deforestation. The area of the Earth covered with forest has increased by an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined.”