lungs has been burning for approximately three weeks now because of manmade fires encouraged by brazil's president obviously this is not only a huge issue for those living in or near the Amazon rainforest including the indigenous tribes animals and plants but also the rest of the world the amazon rainforest is believed to be home to more than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants animals and insects and one fifth of the world's freshwater is in the Amazon basin according to save the amazon org.

so for it to be completely destroyed will not only be a tragedy but would also lead to some very severe consequences for the planet one of those consequences is losing 20% of the world's oxygen now of course that doesn't mean there won't be enough oxygen for us to breathe the world would find a way to adjust and there would still be enough oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere to keep us from suffocating but this would also mean a big increase of carbon constantly being pushed out a lot more than we currently have which is already a large problem and contributes to the Earth's rising temperature and climate change it's believed the Amazon rainforest absorbs approximately 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide without the trees.

there to absorb the carbon and filter it out to push fresh oxygen back out to the earth you better believe the fight against climate change would be next to impossible some have gone as far as referring to the Amazon rainforest as the air conditioner of the world with removal Batista a forest campaigner for Greenpeace and Brazil saying that every single tree in the Amazon helps I quote control the humidity and how the heat is exchanging in different parts of the world end quote this is of course due to the amount of oxygen being pumped out every second of every day.

but without that system working as it should the world will quickly start to see and feel the effects of losing its lungs the News is at the Amazon rainforest is quite large if it were considered a country it would be considered the ninth biggest in the world but it's already lost 20 percent of the land it originally had and it's believed to be diminishing by approximately twenty thousand square miles per year and this scary part is the Amazon rainforest works in a cycle it's rain gets absorbed by the plants which release water back into the air which creates clouds and more rain.

but if it keeps getting destroyed it will make it harder and harder for this cycle to continue which would lead to less rain this would interfere with a cycle that is vital for the Amazon rainforest to continue functioning and filtering out carbon from the air and providing the world with fresh oxygen as of today it seems like we're going to be okay even though we've already lost a fifth of the land it's.





so big that it's gonna be a little while before it's all gone with that being said it's no secret that climate change has become more and more serious as the years have gone on this is in direct relation with the fact that the Amazon rainforest is down 20% from what it originally started and with the direction Brazil's president is going in it seems like the deforestation isn't going to be slowing down anytime soon and although the loss of the Amazon rainforest altogether wouldn't necessarily mean we'd have trouble breathing it would definitely lead to us having issues with climate change more so than we already do as of today we're already having trouble combating climate change.

so if there was an increase in how quickly it's happening there's no telling what the fate of the world would be if you're interested in helping the cause you can look up a handful of nonprofit organizations whose sole focus is the preservation of the Amazon rainforest there's also petitions circulating the web for government officials to take action as of now it seems unclear what state the Amazon rainforest will be in whenever these fires do stop it is important to mention July and August are normally the beginning of the dry season and the region's driest months with activity kicking by early September and stopping by mid November according to NASA and by those standards it seems like things are expected to get worse before they get better cheers to helping the Amazon rainforest and of course our planet can recover from this whole situation as always I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below when these fires stop you think the Amazon rainforest will be able to restore itself how will the loss of land affect our planet in our day-to-day lives.

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