Amazon rainforest burning; record fires, visible from space

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Postby Iamwhomiam » Fri Aug 23, 2019 1:06 pm
Video of the indigenous tribal village burning was aired yesterday on Democracy Now, but was not available until today, when it was aired once again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98nrt7mB-d0

[Iamwhomiam]

Thanks, slad. It hadn't been posted to youtube when I checked there for it this morning.

[MacCruiskeen]

Food for thought, and a reminder that what media do is mediate:

https://off-guardian.org/2019/08/23/ama ... t-so-much/

I don't know what to make of this. I'm neither a statistician nor an expert on the history of the Amazon. But Black Catte is one of the sharper minds at the very mixed-quality Off-Guardian site. She may just be quibbling here, or she may not. She is certainly right to remind us that there are lies, damned lies and statistics, and that we should be very wary of any putative "concern for the environment" propagated by the very same corporate media that live from its ongoing exploitation and destruction.

[MacCruiskeen]

^^That's just a reminder that there are conflicting interests among the besuited masters of the universe, whether their surname happens to be Obama or Bolsonaro or Macron or Trump or Netanjahu or Branson or Musk. 9/11 was good for US GDP. A burning Amazon sells eyeballs to advertisers.

For the record, fwiw, and in case there was any doubt, I feel every bit as heartsick as Harvey about the ongoing and undeniably catastrophic progress of human civilisation. One way or another, the Amazon rainforest is going the same way as the dodo, the Northern White Rhino, the Great Barrier Reef, the honeybee, the unsurveilled space, and the rare human not yet suffering from screendamage™.

There is no profit in giving a damn about any of this.

[coffin_dodger]

If you want to see a real ecological horrorshow that has unfolded right under the noses of US citizens (and on their watch), open up Google Earth and take a look at the fracking sites across the US.
There are too many to count.