Amazon Fires Leave Many Animals Dead

Amazon Fires Leave Many Animals Dead
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Heat and smoke from the fires raging through the Amazon forest in Bolivia are responsible for the deaths of many animals, including armadillos, Bolivian veterinarians and officials say. Approximately 8,300 square kilometers (3,800 square miles) have been impacted by the fires near Bolivia’s border with Paraguay and Brazil.

Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday, August 25, he was open to international aid to fight the blazes that have engulfed rural villages and doubled in size since Thursday.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says his country will accept aid from G-7 countries to battle wildfires in the Amazon rainforest only if French President Emmanuel Macron retracts what Bolsonaro considers offensive remarks.

Bolsonaro told reporters Tuesday Macron accused him of being a liar, adding that Macron has to retract his comments “and from there we can talk.”

Macron has questioned Bolsonaro’s honesty and commitment to protecting the environment. Macron threatened last week to block a free trade deal between Latin America and the European Union unless Bolsonaro, a climate change skeptic, took serious steps to fight the Amazon fires. Bolsonaro’s conditional acceptance of the aid comes one day after he rejected the money, declaring the funds could be better used in Europe.

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  1. DO TO THE AMAZON, FIRES THOUSAND OF BRASILIAN PEOPLE,ARE ON HOSPITAL,AND CLINIC WITH RESPIRATORY PLOBLEMS,WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THAT? Maybe brasilian. People will wake up!!!!!!!!!!i is real.

  2. If humans never existed the world and overall would be a much better place and everything would be living and breathing fresh air and not toxic air. Humans are failures to this existence and I would trade all of humanity for the world and animals to be safe and cozy IN THEIR OWN FUCKING HOME.

  3. Addressing the mass-burning of the Amazonian rainforest (the ecosystem biomass produces 20 percent of Earth’s oxygen), Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro told the rest of the rightfully concerned world, “You have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil’s, not yours.”

    Earth’s eco-systems honour no national boundary. If only it were so, that the damage to the natural environment by morally and ethically corrupt governments and corporate puppet-masters was somehow poetically miraculously confined strictly to the owners’ territory.

    It’s like humanity is confined to a massive interstellar spaceship, owned and operated by the fossil fuel industry, but on which we’re all permanently confined; and while we’re adamantly arguing over finite resources and how much one should have to pay for it, the spaceship is burning and toxifying at locations not normally investigated—or else those areas are occupied thus claimed and controlled by one narrowminded possessive party.

    “Mind your own business,” asserted the Brazilian president, in what may be memorialized throughout the ages, if our species survives our own perverse collective nature.

    To quote Jacob Marley's ghost in rebutting Ebenezer Scrooge’s cold-cash-hearted mentality, “BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business!”

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