Fires in the Amazon Have Decreased By Nearly Half Since Their Peak – IOTW Report

Fires in the Amazon Have Decreased By Nearly Half Since Their Peak

The Amazon rainforest has been on fire for three weeks, prompting outrage and calls for action from celebrities, pundits, and lawmakers.

At face value the statistics look staggering – that there were more than 80,000 fires so far this year, the highest since 2013, and up 79% increase from the same time period last year.

At least, that’s the narrative at face value.Advertisement

The Amazon is Burning – These Places Are Not

No shortage of politicians and celebrities have shared a wide array of photos of forest fires allegedly of the Amazon on fire – that aren’t actually of the Amazon on fire this month.

A tweet from French President Emmanuel Macron claiming to visualize the destruction has over 60k retweets and 160k likes on Twitter as of writing – and in reality this is a twenty-year-old photograph.

Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo asked his followers to pray for the Amazon – accompanied by a photograph of a fire in Southern Brazil from 2013.

And of their shared claim that the Amazon makes up 20% of the Earth’s oxygen, according to Dan Nepstad, an expert on the Amazon, is all “b.s.” (his word choice). “There’s no science behind that. The Amazon produces a lot of oxygen but it uses the same amount of oxygen through respiration so it’s a wash.” more here


10 Comments on Fires in the Amazon Have Decreased By Nearly Half Since Their Peak

  1. We need more common sense arson laws!

    Ban high capacity matchbooks!

    We need to throw due process out the window and seize the lighters of anyone posting anything about campfires on the internet!

    Take the Zippos first, go through due process second.

    There is simply no reason for civilians to have highly combustible fuels.

    You cannot tell me that anyone should just be able to just walk into a store and buy a can of kerosene!

    Nobody really needs a 5 gallon can of gasoline to hunt.

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  2. I like the whole “outraged” celebrities, pundits and lawmakers……….. WTF? Really…… OUTRAGED???
    I don’t understand anything or anyone.
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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