Opinion: The Amazon fires are catnip for proponents of swift and radical action on the climate
At least Diddy and Leonardo DiCaprio don’t host multilateral meetings of Western heads of state.
The Amazon fires are catnip for proponents of swift and radical action on the climate. They pine for a mediagenic, easy-to-understand planetary emergency and are happy to manufacture one as necessary..” The meteorologist Eric Holthaus related the opinion of a specialist in prehistoric fires in the Amazon that “the current fires are without precedent in the past 20,000 years.
The fires aren’t the spontaneous result of global warming. The program director of the group Amazon Watch told CNN, “The vast majority of these fires are human-lit,“ noting that it isn’t easy for the rainforest to catch fire, even in the dry season.reports, “and the majority of these fires were set by farmers preparing Amazon-adjacent farmland for next year’s crops and pasture.
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