15.07.2012 - Planet-Lungs1 and the Amazon Rainforest etc. by dali48
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22.11.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
Yes, John C. I agree that many things are adding up to a giant, dangerous headache for us. I also agree that the majority of people do not feel the need to change. Like lemings we will merrily run along following the pack until the sudden free-fall off the cliff ends our illusions...
But on a happier note, some people are taking this more seriously and are converting their homes and travel to methods more beneficial to reducing their dependence upon the petro-narcotic and other wasteful ways of generating electrical power...
Just recently a Texas oilman announced that he is helping get us off oil by building a wind-powered electrical generating plant that can power around 60,000 homes. Under the title of: Billionaire Oilman backs Wind Power, CNN reported the story at the following web site: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/pickens.qa/index.
NateRider says: We definitely need a cleaner source of energy - and to stop removing so many trees. While I realize we do need the wood - we don't need... (by Chef Jeff on HP)
Interpretation of dali48
The Amazon Rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers...
This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in...
The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world...
Wet tropical forests are the most species-rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in Africa and Asia...
The biodiversity of plant species is the highest on Earth with some experts estimating that one square kilometer (247 acres) may contain more than a thousand types of trees and thousands of species of other higher plants...
The green leaf area of plants and trees in the rainforest varies by about 25% as a result of seasonal changes... These changes provide a balance of carbon between photosynthesis and respiration...
Between 1991 and 2000, the total area of forest lost in the Amazon rose from 415,000 to 587,000 square kilometers (160,000 to 227,000 square miles), with most of the lost forest becoming pasture for cattle...
Environmentalists are concerned about loss of biodiversity that will result from destruction of the forest, and also about the release of the carbon contained within the vegetation, which could accelerate global warming...
As indigenous territories continue to be destroyed by deforestation and ecocide, such as in the Peruvian Amazon indigenous peoples' rainforest communities continue to disappear, while others, like the Urarina continue to struggle to fight for their cultural survival and the fate of their forested territories...
A 2009 study found that a 4 °C rise in global temperatures by 2100 would kill 85% of the Amazon rainforest while a temperature rise of 3 °C would kill some 75% of the Amazon...
Using handheld GPS devices and programs like Google Earth, members of the Trio Tribe, who live in the rainforests of southern Suriname, map out their ancestral lands to help strengthen their territorial claims...
It concludes that the forest is on the brink of being turned into savanna or desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate...
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires (see dali48 and Trees and "Flora and Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. - “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy” etc. - d.48)... (Wikipedia)
