Amazon Inferno
wildfire
a billion trees lost
one-fifth already burned
Earth’s lungs squeezed
black smoke blocking sun
razing rainforest
stealing ecosystems
choking our air
vast deforestation
wiping out habitats
flora, fauna gone for good
gigantic scale of devastation
scouring our blue planet
apocalypse too close
disaster’s arrived
action is mandatory
hope rains drench the Amazon-
or life like we know it could be lost
President Bolsonaro sanctioned much land clearing in the Amazon. He is rumoured to have dropped gasoline from planes to start and spread these massive dry season fires. An anti-environmentalist, he’s a climate change denier who wants the entire tract of land gone.
Every 30 seconds pristine rainforest the size of a large city is destroyed for all time. This place provides the earth with 20% of it’s total oxygen and 20% of the Amazon has already been burnt out; we are down 4%. In 3 weeks of out of control burning, world oxygen levels are 96% of what they were.
That’s radical.
An asthma sufferer all my life, I wonder what this means for respiratory complaints world wide. There could be an unprecedented health crisis in every nation. As untold amounts of carbon are continually destroyed, climate change will speed up. Wildfires are wrecking the lungs of the world; killing off untold resources, whole habitats, animals, plants and trees that can never come back.
They’ll be as dead as dinosaurs.
The devastation will be as though our planet was struck by meteors. If these Brazilian wildfires are left to burn out another fifth of the forest, the entire Amazon will consume itself. The earth can never come back from that. It would mean radical changes on a global scale, effecting everything that lives and breathes.
Not a prediction; a reality.
I am frightened. This has to be a priority for world leaders and all of us.
We have the power to reverse some of the destruction.
I hope we can.
In time.
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