CORRECTIONS (Because of course) 1. I just said the widely-shared fact that the Amazon produces 20% of the world's oxygen without checking. This is not correct, and I should have checked it. The question of where the oxygen comes from is a complicated and interesting one and, frankly, I'd like to make a whole video about it. A good estimate is that the Amazon produces about 6% of the world's oxygen. Which still seems like an important amount. 2. The cat I show in the video is a jaguarundi, that's not a correction...just something lot of people asked about. 3. There's a lack of clarity in statistics right now, this isn't because scientists are bad, it's because the dry season is on-going and there are more fires every day and existing fires grow. So when we say "there are 88% more fires than last year* that doesn't necessarily mean "88% more land has been burned" nor is that number set in stone. Figuring out exact numbers from this year's fire season will take a long time because, like, the Amazon is very big and humans have to draw shapes on satellite maps.
You're wrong and you are passing a lot of false information. Everything is wrong in what you said. It's a real misinformation service. No laws have been changed. Set fire to the forest is a crime. Fires happen naturally every year. This year the fires are below average. The Amazon rainforest does not produce 6% of the world's oxygen, almost all of the oxygen produced is consumed by the forest itself. You are also misusing data. Fire outbreaks are not 88% larger than previous years. With a little attention you will realize that this data makes no sense since fires have been below the annual average for the past 15 years. About the concern of other countries with the Amazon. No country cares about Amazon trees. There is no non-governmental organization caring about any other ecosystem in Brazil. When the Brumandinho and Mariana dams broke down and killed thousands of people and destroyed several cities nobody cared. Even with toxic tailings contaminating thousands of miles. And it happened in 2019. What other countries are interested in is below the Amazon. 98% of world niobium reserves and much more.
@@danilomoura9663 It sounds to me like you are the one spreading disinfo here, not Hank. BTW Hank gave sources for most of his claims. You gave not even *one* source for your counter-claims. Your claim about niobium reserves is especially incredible. So put up or shut up. BTW, even if it were true that that is where 98% of the world's niobium is, that would *weaken* your case, since it provides even more incentive for Brazilian mining companies to destroy forest with their mines.
@@1madlilgrunt The G7 meeting that just happened did not impose sanctions on Brazil either. French President Emmanuel Macron was talking to the walls alone. ( I don't know how to translate the expression, but I think it was understood that he was ignored and was still interrupted by other leaders) He started this wave of fake news with a 1989 photo. France has some interests in the Amazon region and macron fears not being reelected. He tried to look good to farmers in northern France. France, the country that made 193 nuclear tests in Polynesia and destroyed 99.7% of the original vegetation.
@@stevencooper4422 The rate of fire across the ENTIRE AMAZON BASIN is close to average. If you look at data regarding only the Brazilian Amazon, you'll see this year is completely atypical, it has the highest rate of deforestation in Brazil since 2005, which was also an atypical year.
@@stevencooper4422 "Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará": Mato Grosso (which literally means Thick Woods btw) has been so thoroughly deforested there is no more Amazon to burn in the state, so obviously it's below average. Pará has a different curve than other states. Amazonas and Rondônia are precisely the states where protected forest reserves are being invaded and burned. Native indigenous people, who live in and protect the forest, are being killed by local farmers and land-grabbers.
As a Brazilian who actually cares for the Amazon, I'd like to thank you for addressing this topic. ps: some brazilian lunatics are going to comment hateful things. they are allergic to science and logic, so just ignore them.
Pietro Leonardi Candido Olivetti It’s hard to ignore people who basically want to remove the earths oxygen supply. Edit - I would like to retract my first comment after being talked into the fact that the Amazon Rainforest isn’t part of the earths oxygen supply. I needed to do more research and I now see the error of my ways. Thanks for the help of the UA-cam comments section allowing reasoned discussions to flourish. It’s hard to admit that I didn’t know what I was talking about, but I feel, in doing so, I’ve definitely grown as a person. Thanks guys.
@@TheInternetIsDeadToMe you're correct, man, but I said it in a more "don't feed the troll" way. Obviously something has to be done in a pragmatic manner.
@@izzycruz6289 actually he don't, he just says "the president says yada yada and it's a lie". He don't say why it's a lie and says other stuff that are fake.
he should practice what he preaches. this vid is mostly an anti-nationalist ideological rant. it would help if he actually knows anything about the legal processes and politics in brazil - which he clearly does not.
Thanks for raising awareness on this, Hank. As a brazillian that fights for science and the enviroment, I feel strangled by nationalism and global warming deniers. We REALLY need a international shake on this.
@@GravityGamingCo I stoppd caring when the people who scream the loudest about it ignored nuclear energy as a solution. They seemed too busy using it as a Trojan horse to push socialism.
I'm sooo PISSED the media used this as fake news for political purposes! You made a mistake, but plenty of the politicians and newscasters knew as this is what the farmers do there every year.
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 your stupid why do people keep saying this we should not be the ones killing everything. And you would not even know if that is true or not stupid.
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 what you are referring to is the fact that the likelihood of humans destroying earth, as in the earth is no longer a planet, is unlikely and not entirely realistic. However, we are destroying earth as it is now. The earth that humans and other flora and fauna we need to survive, are familiar with. May we go extinct? Possibly. However, given our abilities, the only thing that would cause us to go extinct, is ourselves. I mean seriously, our only natural enemy left is, like, gigantic asteroids, and us. We'll assume for the sake of this conversation you also believe man made climate change is fake. Okay, it's fake and we've put all these ecological laws and green laws into place for no reason. Is it for no reason? What are you going to lose if we have preservational laws and green laws that lead to cleaner water sources, more water resources, cleaner rivers, garbage isnt just laying on the banks of highways anymore. Who knows, the homeless population could decrease because there are more jobs available and so much more I'm not even considering right now. Why is it a waste of time to care about our home? Do you just throw trash all over your house and shit on the floor and burn the bathroom down because it would make more room for your sweet, sick man cave? I hope not cuz wow lol. The earth is our home. And we need to take care of it right now.
Thank you for this video. I recently did a school project on this subject and it was crazy the number of articles that just said that the amazon was burning but if you dig even just a little bit below the surface you can see that these fires aren't natural and are a work of generaly agriculture. Thank you for shedding light on this issue that very little people actually know about
A lot of the trees in the Amazon are being replaced with oil palms. In effect, the forest is still there. Just the type of trees has been changed. Palm oil is a valuable resource and the industry employes a lot of people.
@@charlesaanonson3954 this is so stupid. Replacing a highly diverse ecosystem that has stood for millions of years with one type of plant for farming and economic uses is erasing its biodiversity and poses a great danger to the species that live in it, because they didnt evolve living with just palm oils, they evolved in the amazon forest and have very specific niches. Plus continuous farming will deplete the soil which means they will need to remove more and more of the amazon and eventually reducing it into nothing like we did with so many old growth forests. Countries in southeast asia have done the same and have become the biggest exporters of palm oil and as a result see more and more dangerous wildfires every year. So not only will you be endangering millions of exotic species that cant live elsewhere, you’ll be removing the amazon’s ecosystem services which help fight climate change. This is all for profit
The forest is our... Why don't you plant yours instead of telling us to stop? while you continue to pollute the world with your factories? stop being a hypocrite
Thank you for making this video. There is so much information floating around out there and it's been difficult to cut through the noise. I appreciate the research you put into this :) I'm off to share it now.
@@vlogbrothers It's a good observation; since this is, well, the RAIN forests; raising cattle is very water inefficient. While Brazil is going to have a lot more cattle soon, if they go too far with burning their rain forest, they will ironically not be able to supply their own cattle with water anymore, because it won't be captured by their rain forest any longer and just mix with dirt to become non-potable sludge. Shifting gears for a minute; The biggest export from Brazil is actually soy. Now, that might lead people to believe that that means vegetarianism is to blame for this, but it's more complicated than that. In a theoretical scenario where there was no demand for soy by vegans, there would be a demand for meat (which, as mentioned before, is less resource efficient, though more financially efficient) instead. Human ambition always exceeds our resources (that's literally the first line in my old economic textbook), so if it wasn't for soy, it would have been for meat (which would have been worse). However, the second part of this is; Soy is used as cattlefeed. Yeah, soy isn't being grown as a billion dollar industry to keep vegans supplied with protein, it's being used to supply cows with protein. In other words. Yeah. Yeah we really do eat that water, though. And not just because it rains in America. In fact, we eat that water condensing in Brazil too. By, like, a lot.
Nepal is also facing this problem they(the government) wanna clear out a huge area of forest for an airport(in place called Nijgadh,Bara)... this adversely affects the elephants and bengal tigers habitats... the country men who have knowledge about this are raising voices but its not enough... for any fellow nepalese reading this i urge you to spread the word amongst your community... for the foreign community you too can help spread the voice so it doesnt have to suffer the fate like amazon... also if theres anything at my level to help amazon please let me know... sincerely
I think the only thing that can help,even if not much, is by donating to ONG's. I dont know any that can be trustful but some youtubers like Pewdiepie Twitted about some that you can donate to
@@giovannirafael5351 I am dating a South American but she is super Catholic. How much of a misnomer is that? I get no refunds or exchanges when I find out first hand.
IonicGecko What money ? By that point only the rich would have the money but they would be as poor as everyone else because their money would no longer mean anything.
As a Brazilian who wants to start a science career and that cares about the environment (specially the Amazon) it really makes me happy that people like you Hank, are able to spread the real information about what's happening here. Thank you for your support!
Totally agree. Sadly, our media in the UK is hopeless. So much fake news. Thankfully we have You Tube. But who knows for how long? As a scientist, would you look into my Japanese Knotweed research. Saving trees, and creating Japanese Knotweed paper: butterflylullaby.blogspot.com/2019/07/japanese-knotweed-paper-saving-trees.html This plant is really hated in the UK. I use Japanese Knotweed in my smoothies and it keeps me Asthma free. Do you have this plant in your Country? butterflylullaby.blogspot.com/2019/05/japanese-knotweed-mortgage-uk.html
@@DroNNIOfficial interessante. Você poderia ao menos me dizer o que no meu comentário o fez concluir que eu sou burro. Caso diga que "todo o comentário já exprime isso" eu não gostaria de continuar o diálogo. Além disso, ao me insultar acredito que você já esteja esclarecendo seu nivel de inteligencia.
@@pabloparraguez4724 Aonde estava sua preocupação nos anos anteriores? de 2000 a 2017 a amazônia perdeu uma área equivalente ao tamanho da Alemanha, e segundo dados da Nasa, os índices de incêndios são os menores nesse ano, por que essa mídia, você e políticos populistas estão se preocupando só agora? Você não deve ser burro mesmo, é apenas um mau caráter.
Holy shit, that is an amazing perspective. It raises the question of whether the international community is obligated to reward and compensate nation states for preserving universal resources. It's not as crazy an idea as it sounds - analogous to the government giving tax credits for private citizens donating money to charities endorsed by the same government.
oddly, there's this carbon offset movement, which, theoretically, should have done exactly that. But so far, it is panning out to be an exercise in creative accounting, and the money might go to the very people burning the forest down
It's actually been debated hotly here in Brazil for years. Protecting the Amazon costs us millions, if not billions, and of course it's obvious it's the right thing to do, but considering that doing that IS a favor to the whole world, not just to ourselves (even if we're doing a lousy job as of right now thanks to Bolsonaro's scorched land strategy), the most favored view here is that we shouldn't, as a mid-to-low income economy, carry that weight on our own, which is actually one of the reasons even many fairly pro-US journalists and commentators couldn't help interpreting Biden's 50-million promise for the Fundo Amazônia early this year as some kind of offence or, at best, a show of how badly the US "empire" is doing (especially considering that, at the same time, China proposed some much more advantageous deals). Basically, rich countries have become rich on the backs of exploitation of colonies/states in their sphere of influence and environmental disaster, and it's not fair that they expect us not only to fix it, but fix on our own, at the cost of other things we could be doing to our people (and it's a lot to do with not that many resources, as we aren't a developed country). The problem is that accepting money from outside does mean we end up with the obligation to be held accountable - sometimes even downright have other countries try to tell us what we should or shouldn't do. John Kerry literally said that the Amazon was "everyone's" to Marina Silva, the Minister of Environment, leading to a very awkward moment in which she had to say that it is, after all, Brazilian land, in late February this year (or early March, I don't remember anymore). It isn't a lie when the extreme right claims that the rest of the world has interests in undermining our sovereignty in the Amazon. But the answer to it isn't burning the forest to the ground so nobody else can use it.
That's true, one of the reasons so many people get apathetic towards problems like this is because there's just _too much_ information like this. We hear about stories like this all the time, each story fed to us from multiple political positions so we effectively get 2 or 3 stories for every event like this and people just get overloaded.
@@arthas640 you mean lies right? That is the real problem. With the advent of social media lies spread like wild fires. It is important for people to be more honest and check their facts before posting and/or making videos such as this one. I was born in Brazil and have lived there until my adulthood and the Amazon has been neglected for years and years. Indians have been murdered, fires have occurred during 30 years of leftist leaning governments and NO ONE has ever said anything. Why now? I find it interesting. STOP SPREADING THE LIES!
Karl Polányi, economic historian, said that with the creation of capitalism, the economy is no longer embedded into society, but now the society is embedded into the economy. He also said that capitalism needs labour, land and money to turn into commodities. "The Great Transformation" is the title of his book if anyone is interested in sociology.
@@rayray2528 What astronomical event occurring in the not "very long" future have I missed? It is my understanding that this planet will be here until the sun becomes a red giant and consumes the earth and whatever life remains on it.
Anyways, thanks for doing this, Hank. As a Brazilian living abroad in this post truth era I really don't know who and what to believe, and I trust you. Let's do this!!
Yes, recently there has been an increase in burning in the Amazon. That's true. But it is not true that the current government has made changes to the law that encourage deforestation. Brazilian agribusiness has nothing to do with what is happening there at the moment. There are land grabbers and some fake NGOs (they are close to one hundred thousand NGOs in the region ... yeah) that promote destruction there. Many NGOs (funded by foreigners), whose purpose is to protect the forest on the façade, actually serve the purpose of preventing Brazil from exploiting the region itself in a sustainable way. Research the environmental crimes of Hydro Alunorte. It is an ore company whose main shareholder is the government of Norway. This company is responsible for one of the largest cases of dumping of iron ore tailings in Amazon River springs. Anyone who thinks that the interest of the great powers in the Amazon has to do with preserving the planet's forest or biodiversity is either too naive or is playing dumb. The subsoil of the Amazon region is one of the richest in ores in the world. It has to and will be explored someday, sustainably preferably. Whether Germany, France or England care so much about the environment that their countries reforest. Rebuild their own destroyed ecosystems in past generations. Brazil is already the country that most preserves its native forests worldwide. We already do our homework very well. We have over 66% of our preserved native forest. The EU has only 25%, China 17% USA 14%. In fact, in recent days Brazil is suffering a media attack that will serve as a protectionist measure disguised as environmental concern. The mainstream American media uses the environmental narrative hypocritically, cynically, to create barriers to Brazilian exports of agricultural products and animal protein, not to mention minerals. Many foreign producers cannot compete with our meat, milk and grain production and so use alleged environmental crimes to restrict Brazil's access to international trade. They use the environmental preservation discourse to hijack Brazil's Amazon and place it under international tutelage so that Brazil never uses its economic and geopolitical potential in a sustainable way.
The fire has also spread to the east side of the Bolivian territory (where I'm from) and has consumed a large portion of our natural reserves. It took almost a month for the government to seek international help, (since we don't have the means to fight against this kind of disasters) and still is heavily undermining the HUGE damage that's already been done. All because of the same nationalist views they have. We need help in Bolivia as well!
Jesus Oliva exactly Bolivia is like right next to Brazil (which it is) and nobody is caring about the others. Like Siriname and Venezuela and Columbia. They just care about the big ones like brazil, Argentina and Peru. FRICK EVERYONE ELSE. None of the neighbors are allowed to help. I mean it’s pointless because it would be faster and local. They just want America and EVERYONE TO HELP which can’t happen.
@@floydsanimations9219 Not true. We care a lot about Venezuela. But first President Chavez and then President Maduro refused all genuine help from outside insisting on pillaging the country instead. And Venezuelans have no one else to blame for this, since they voted for both these vultures.
The fires in Bolivia is larger than the fires in Brazil. But people only talks about the fires in the Brazilian side... I know why.. Because Bolsonaro stop the stealing of gold, diamonds, oil, etc from European nations, others. So now they are pissed off about Brazil while in Bolivia they are free to steal
foosmonkey Good point. They are terrible with being concerned about the environment, but demand their citizens behave according to their rules with social credit scores and surveillance cameras to watch them.
go out and do something! plant trees, learn about ecosystem restoration! all the best, everyone with a functioning heart feels deep pain and frustration about what we are doing to earth. but we cant make those feelings over power us. we must go out and bring change!
One persons "earth killing for money" is another's farming to feed people, China is the largest importer of Brazilian agricultural goods, lots of hungry mouths to feed.
@@Homunculas china is also one of the biggest growing markets for meat consumption. we could feed all of us easily and restore huge parts of the earths ecosystems if we all went vegan.
Aries The Ram It’s better if ICE stays exactly where it is, America is too full anyway, and the last thing we need is even more migrants. Instead of moving to ours, they should fix their own, and if they’re not capable of that, then they aren’t worthy of the good conditions we’ve made for ourselves anyway.
Hendrick Cavalcante Moron, Coniferous forests just like in western america are normal, and in some tree species, Crucial... Fires are needed there... But fires are 100% dangerous in *Rainforests*! Don’t twist the facts!
*Forestry is a profitable business.* Keep the forest managed, instead of burning it ! Europe and Japan is growing more and more forests. The USA should create more forestry, because Brazilian politics seem to be exiting the sanity zone.
@@williamebel4763 Japan is one of the most sustainable and ecologically responsible country's that exist. It has kept it's parks, any time there is a environmental catastrophe it will stand a hand (as they know what it is to lose its home, expect it's by nature) and it probably has the best recycling systems there is, name other country that completely reutillizes milk boxes, have in any consumable related place a post for you to deposit some kind of recyclables? Japan in it's nature aways look for the future and what they'll give for the future generations
@@SuperzygarieI don't agree ... and I have many reasons for that, but I can summarize that your actions were very disappointing to me (like becoming a minister)
I'm Brazilian and I'm so scared... We are under a cruel and destructive government and a very loud percentage of people believe in crazy conspiracies and completely ignore science and data, it is very frustrating and really hard to stay sane here. Thank you for reminding us that we are on the right side of history, thank you for speaking up.
@@eltsouza3 So screw science and humanity all in the name of profit. Do I have that right? This kind of arrogance will kill us all. Newsflash, those resources are only valuable if other countries are willing to trade. Do you think other countries will be willing to trade with Brazil as they burn down a the largest single source of oxygen on the planet? Stop being so ignorant and WAKE UP!
I fear The United States is set on that path. It would be easy to imagine trump is the center of this destruction but the horrifying truth is that he is a small symptom.
as a brazilian, this is why voting is important. we're dealing with this partly because capitalism and cattle farming, but also because we let an irresponsible person get elected due to political apathy. there's the destruction of universities, of climate laws, of the healthcare system etc. like we say around here, "it's not a consequence, it's a project". when a president goes on tv gaslighting the people and saying the climate change is a myth or that it's something the oppositiojn invented to criticize him. anyway, long-winded comment to remidn you all that there's no such thing as being apolitical, there's just being apathic in the face of destruction (of climates, human rights, cities, forests, everything).
@@wagnergauer9133 no? just exponential habitat destruction that has a chance to affect 20% of the oxygen we breath. k. but u say the healtcare and universities are a o k so all is well here
"Nationalism is uninherently an exclusionary ideology. And the reason, so often, nationalism, fascism & racism walk together..". Incredibly poignant! I admire how articulate, insightful & educative ur video was. And how earnestly u spoke about it.... Deeply appreciated!
@@Saternalia Yes, but he presents the urgency with a calm perspective and will also appeal to people who don't waste their time watching broadcast news.
@@Saternalia He's definitely pissed but the video is pretty calm. I completely understand why and he and all of us here and abso-fucking-lutely livid though .
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil Educate yourself, man. This is seasonally average fire coverage in the Amazon region. People just wanted to hype things up before the G7 global summit.
@@stevencooper4422 Editor’s Note: This story was updated on 22 August 2019 to clarify our data source. It proves the point made on the video. --------------------- "Smoke from wildfires in the #AmazonRainforest spreads across several Brazilian states in this natural-color image taken by a @NASAEarth instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite. Although it is fire season in Brazil, the number of fires may be record-setting: t.co/NVQrffzntr pic.twitter.com/4JTcBz9C8f - NASA (@NASA) August 21, 2019"
"when you have more of an allegiance to an ideology than the truth." Thank you so much for this coverage. This is a terrifying event and I think you have stated it more honestly than anyone else I have seen.
There are only two possible explanations: a) He's immortal, or b) These are all pre-recorded and he's either able to see the future or a time traveling historian
Bolsonaro and his troupe of protofascists is just a passing wave, just like Trump. I believe that our next President will have more environmental commitment.
@vDosc UV7 Yeah, the oxygen produced is typically consumed by the creatures living there, so it doesn't produce much oxygen for the rest of the world. That being said, the amazon rainforest functions as an extremely important carbon sink, thus the loss of it will greatly increase greenhouse gas levels globally.
@JJoe What the hell are you going on about? Why even include the El Paso shooter here? Trying to defend the burning of the Amazon? I see YOU must belong among the ranks of the "Low Iq".
I rarely comment on youtube videos, but this time I would like to thank you personally for standing up for this issue. I’m a brazilian teacher and some months ago I was just a little worried about the strange outcome of our democratic elections. But now I confess: I’m completely terrified about the brazilian government and specially the inaction, blindness or misinformation of our people. My teenage students, my family and some dear friends somehow don’t see nothing wrong been done by the latest government decisions about the environment, educations and people rights. Our people are applauding some unbelievable government decisions, mostly based on hunches and bravatas, with the excuse of “cleaning the country of corruption and communists”. Studies and scientific data supporting programs and initiatives that made a positive difference, are been discredit and dismissed. Our people are accepting almost anything from the government with some vague and emotional promises of a better future. People are distrusting facts and science and promptly believing in poorly written fake news and political allegations. We’re getting tired of losing friends and loved ones by simply trying to talk to them, to discuss those issues in a peaceful, respectful and scientific manner. I’m afraid our people don’t want to listen, they want blood. The blood of “them”, the others, the mystical culprits of each and every person frustrations. And a large portion of our population see our president as a messiah, who points it’s fingers at whoever should be considered the culprit of those promises of greatness not been fulfilled. But he is making the same kind of vague and impossible promises, the irony. Keep up the good work by informing the citizens of the world, by bringing the light of science in this times of greater need. The world need good people like you to inspire us, to give us hope, to not be defeated by the impossible odds. I don’t want to be silent at this crucial moment of my country and today, dear John and Hank, you just gave me the strength I needed to keep on fighting :) Let’s try to recover the common sense, one person at a time.
Rainforest: I will help you breath and live and thrive and be healthy! \(ϋ)/ Carnists: But hamburgers Rainforest: But I.... Carnists: MUST HAZ CHEEZEBURGER!! Ain't my fault. I don't eat sentient creatures.
Rainforest: I will help you breath and live and thrive and be healthy! \(ϋ)/ Humans: but u no wifi Rainforest: But I.... Humans: wifi (remember that meme that people less favoring planting trees because it emits oxygen and not wifi signals?)
This reminds me when in Ecuador we had huge mangroove forest that were ideal for shrimp farming so everyone cut them down to make shrimp farms, killing the protective enviroment the mangroove provided, when El Niño phenomenon struck more than 50% of shrimp farms were knocked out, because mangrove help contain drain water without it eroding too much, but it was slashed and burned. This will happen again, rainfores thrive because they make rain and that rain travels the globe, not only Brazil will suffer from droughts the whole continent will do, many Brazilian rivers will starve from lack of water, because they are fed not by the Andes but by the rain that the Amazonas brings, and when a new Niño strikes down entire cities will drown in river fury because the net of roots that absorbed that extra water will not be where they should.
They will not drown, the people in inland Brazil will simply be long moved out, forced by endless drought. Want to know what Brazil looks like without its forest recyling most of its water in its own evaporation-rain cycle? Just look at inland Australia.
Up. I was catching my breath for the lack of punctuation but i figured that perhaps this is the effect of not taking care of mother nature so that is why even punctuations are running scarce
Hey! So, I'm a brazilian, and first of all I'd like to thank you for making a video on this important topic and spreading such important information. Even though the Amazon doesn't produce so much of the world's oxygen, it still produces a quite large amount of it (6% is important, people). But there's some investigation being done by our Federal Police over these fires and there has been some progress: about 50 people were found guilty of setting fires in some parts of the brazilian Amazon for a bunch of different reasons, and it was established that the fires are being widely commented due to political reasons. Allow me to explain: there is already evidence of people that were burning the Amazon using gasoline and such inflammable substancies, and the background to that was already checked and is still undergoing more investigation. Do we know why these people were doing what they were doing? Well, yes. Some of them were part of ONGs (organizations that don't seek profit) that were created with the objective of protecting the Amazon from this kind of thing. But why would people that were compromised with protecting the Amazon burn it to ashes? It is known that these organizations were kept alive by government funding, and our president Jair Bolsonaro has cut this funding to the majority of these organizations. So what he said about the organizations burning down the Amazon forest in protest to reclaim their funding isn't just speculation, but a fact supported by evidences gathered by the Federal Police by a thorough investigation. These organizations aren't only trying to get their money back: they're trying to give the population the sense that their services are needed because when they're away, the Amazon faces this kind of problems. Basically, they're creating the demand for their own services. And aside from them, part of the people who were arrested and are being investigated were burning down the Amazon for the very reason you spoke of: they want to clear land so they can use it to create animals and/or do other things related to agricultural activity. And, despite all of that, there's a lot of things left unclear by the media. If you see the statistics regarding the fires that occured in the Amazon in the last few years, you'll see that the current year is way behind others like 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010. Of course, the statistics respective to the current year are still incomplete, and we'll only be able to say accurately if the actual burnings are bigger or smaller than the previous ones. You can find all this data in the INPE website (National Spatial Research Institute/Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Espacial), which is queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/portal-static/estatisticas_estados/. In this page, you'll be able to see the statistics regarding the burnings in every region of our country until this very day. All you've got to do is filter the statistics by region and select "Amazônia Legal" (legal Amazon). That being done, you'll see by scrolling down a detailed chart specifying the months, numbers and, at the bottom of the page, a graphic. INPE also provides satelite images that show the fires in the whole country's territory, where you can zoom in and out of any region you'd like to investigate: queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/bdqueimadas. These are websites where you can verify every fact and statistic I mentioned above: g1.globo.com/pa/para/noticia/2019/08/26/governo-do-pa-diz-que-identificou-cerca-de-50-envolvidos-com-queimadas-no-pa.ghtml, g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/noticia/2019/04/25/sobe-para-26-numero-de-presos-no-am-em-operacao-da-pf-contra-desmatamento-ilegal-na-amazonia.ghtml, earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil. By analysing all of this data, it is indeed possible to say that, altough people who supposedly took on the responsability of protecting the Amazon are burning it down, this year's fires are in sume really below average, and thus all the publicity it is receiving is occurring in order to blame Bolsonaro for a problem that is not his fault (why would he keep funding organizations that not only don't prevent fires (if they did, the past years would have better statistics overall, don't you think?), but create them in order to get back their funding? Think about it as if these guys were firefighters. Their job is to prevent and extinguish fires, and they receive public money for doing that. But for some reason, no fire is happening in the last few years, so their funding is diminished and, to force the government into bumping up their funding again, they start burning forests and such. It's what these guys are doing, except they're so useless and uncomitted with their own work that even when they received lots of money to do their work, the Amazon burned way more than it is burning now). Plus, great part of the fires should be extinguished in some time, as Bolsonaro sent the army to deal with the problem, since it's a cheaper and effective way to solve the problem. Thanks a lot and keep up the great work!
This is exactly what I was about to write. People need to know the truth, the real truth instead of being out there saying whatever they want. Funding organizations just want money, let be honest here.
Eu moro em Porto Velho, na Amazônia, e posso afirmar, empiricamente, que as queimadas aqui em Rondônia aumenta a cada ano. De uns 4 anos pra cá, as fumaças de queimada, ficam quase o verão todo (julho, agosto, setembro) tendo um desses anos, antes da pandemia, a fumaça daqui, atravessar o Brasil todo até a parte sul do país. A AMAZÔNIA TÁ QUEIMANDO.
This is exactly what we should be doing, after all, it is their home and they are the true guardians. I would hope that if someone was burning my home down that others would be there fighting my corner to put it out and stop it from happening again.
Hey actual scientist here who works a lot on environmental tipping points. You can't say there are always a lot of tipping points on the road to the destruction of a particularly environmental feature. The only thing we can say is that as far as we know there are often many phase shifts on the road towards such a disaster. Environmental processes are just so infinitely complex that actually there could be orders of magnitude of cyclical processes that lead to tipping points or, for example, there could be one singular enormous shortcut where a system undergoes a giant equilibrium shift and changes phase. Refer to Scheffer's work I believe early into the 2000s where he categorized such tipping points. He uses the example of biogechemical cycling in reservoirs (in a related region to my own work). One perturbation in any major or even minor pathway in the entire catchment-reservoir mega-system and the path towards phase shift can become irreversable. So yes you can say often we see many differing tipping points on the way to a total loss or shift on environment. But often the end point in already inevitable and the damage is done. Consider the visual demonstration of a ball rolling on a 1D surface that undulates varyingly. If the ball is pushed over a lip (tipping point) the momentum can carry it over many further lips until it settles in a different local minima. The only way to stop the ball once it is rolling is direct intervention, which is not always possible in environmental systems.
@@Technomancr Not really; that's deflecting responsibility. The only *real* hope is for people to do something. Science can say all it wants; doesn't matter. The president is still burning the Amazon. Technology is expensive and will only succeed if it's profitable. The only hope is for people to do something. And considering where we are, that hope is dead. I want to believe it's not, but it is.
@Cá M. Cá M. If I'm not mistaken, a very Large percentage of the Amazon Rainforest is in Brazil and the fires are in Brazil... Why are you being rude? I don't see anything wrong with the original post.
Search on Ecosia. They spend 80% of their earnings in planting trees. I found out yesterday and according to search engine, it helped them plant five trees. I hope other businesses follow their example.
I think the rest of the world needs to step in to protect key regions like the Congo and Amazon because their governments aren't doing anything to protect regions that effect the rest of the planet.
And from a geopolitic perspective, this is a direct attack from the presumptious world leaders to a nation that's struggling to develop & improve it's people's lives. Human lives.
@@phdm1234 dont necessarily need to start a war over it, set up an economic agreement where we buy other goods at a higher rate and in return they stop logging. So maybe we buy Brazilian cars or Brazilian clothes or something, dont charge a tariff or buy them at above market price, and in return they have to scale back farming, ranching and logging. If they dont like the deal we raise tariffs on meat and lumber but continue to offer to buy other goods at a great deal. Currently brazil doesnt do much to stop logging because they get money to protect the Amazon even though they're not doing their job and the world continues to buy goods such ad lumber and meat even though those goods are what are killing the amazon. Once it stops being profitable to cut down trees the logging will greatly reduce. We may even want to offer international aid in the form of sustainable harvested/farmed lumber. Weyerhauser uses a great model that allows logging in a sustainable way and the Pacific Northwest is able to preserve most forests without harming lumber exports
"Once the trees are burnt down, the animals killed, and the waters polluted for the sake of wealth, then soon the man will realize that he cannot eat money"
Hank, please make a video on what we can do to help! Not many people are offering solutions. For example, avoiding products with palm oil, cutting back on our meat consumption and products that contain soybean from the Amazon. When there is no political will, we as a collective can make a huge change!! Vote with your $. It isn't over. "Limit the demand for what they produce so they won't be interested in expanding their herds."
XD most Brazilian meat doesn't come from Amazon lol. Amazon has most precious product like Gold, Diamond , Oil, rare animals and other metals. ^.^ i dont think the international companies will want to stop extracting this from Brazil lol
Meat production has nothing to do with why the Amazon is burning. The sole reason the Amazon is burning is to produce fertilizer for crop agriculture, so the best thing you can do is hold vegans accountable for their environmental destruction and not eat plants.
@@sarad6627 Most plants are grown to be fed to animals, you genius. Most deforestation is for the animal products industry. Drop your agenda and actually do some research.
Sarah Denison that is not propaganda. The most prominent cause of deforestation world wide is soy bean production and cattle grazing, mostly for beef (source: Michigan State University). 70-80% of soy is fed to animal livestock (source: WWF). Less than 10% is consumed as food for humans. Ironically, if you want to consume less soy and cause less deforestation, eating soy directly uses considerably less soy than eating meat, as you’re not feeding tonnes of it to animals who we then eat (David Pimentel of Cornell University). Eating soy or plants is not remotely the problem.
EXILED DxMxN yeah but the reason they were started in first place was to make room to graze cattle and to grow cattle feed like soy beans. Only a tiny percentage of the soy from the Amazon goes to directly into human food or to produce emissions
EXILED DxMxN That’s like not studying for finals and saying it doesn’t matter because you’re gonna fail anyway. Or personally killing a cat and saying it doesn’t matter because cats are gonna be extinct someday.
You're not wrong, but in a bigger relativistic picture . . India has done quite well in terms of decelerating deforestation, plantation drives, switching towards renewable resources, pushing policies for electric vehicles, environmental awareness etc . . The problem is that the changes are painfully slow.
@@shishirdas9697 @shishir India's governments take the decisions you talked about because they are profitable (even that is done very inefficiently). On the other hand, when it comes to taking difficult decisions, they back out. Scientists recommended that Gir lions should breed outside their clan and should be partially relocated to expand as too much inbreeding is causing vulnerability to disease outbreaks. The government refused to do that and as a result 25 lions died of a viral outbreak. The remaining lions also are disease ridden and very weak. They have constructed highways and railways right through wildlife sanctuaries and have exposed the tigers and elephants to high stress levels which is one of the main cause that the reproduction rates are low and even the IVFs don't work. (and these are just a few cases)
@@AshishBihani thanks for the feedback . . I didn't know about the case of lions you mentioned . . I'll read about it. But regarding the government decisions on environmental issues, I think as more and more people get aware of the situation, political trend will also slowly follow. Even a selfish politician will have to do something about it ,if his/her voter base cares for the environment. My optimism might be silly, but I like to think the scientists and activists who are piling individual effort are also making a mark. Take for example the research into organic food cultivation through bacteria, or that Indian guy (I forgot his name) who invented a machine to collect plastic waste from the ocean . . And many others who need more media coverage, money and our support.
For sure. Learnt more about what is actually going on and the science behind it from here, than the social media links to donate to charities and the eat less meat debate, which are the main focal points online as opposed to education on what is actually happening.
Luis Alvarez looking at how your subscribed to the President of Brazil who has clearly been proven false multiple times, yeah no I think your definition of research is different from the accepted and rational one
@It's the fox! Why? Soy is healthy and is a good source of protein? Plus if people stopped feeding soy to farm animals by stopping production of livestock. And if we use soy for consumption instead, we would use less farmland and can save resources and environments.
It would be better if the farmers actually practiced multicultured farming instead of plantations, which destroys the soil since it doesn't give time for the nutrients to regrow, and use dozens of agrochemicals that no where else uses it because it's shown to be harmful to the soil, water tables and to there own long-term production.
Thank you so much. I'm Brazilian and we need people speaking about it. Edit: Regarding new comments in here - Yes, it's not the first time people burned our forest, but IT IS the first time the president endorsed the fires. He's only talking about it due to other coutries' pressure.
As queimadas sempre aconteceram e foram recordes nos governos fhc e lula. Mais um golpe da mídia que molda estatisticas para parecer que nunca houve tanta queimada na amazonia. Como enganou o hank dizendo que houve aumento de 88% na incidencia de queimadas comparado com o ano passado. Ignorando toda a média de anos anteriores para emplacar narrativa para moldar a opiniao publica
@@babythestars123 encontraram drogas no avião reserva da fab. Então o avião não era nem do bolsonaro e não há nada que ligue o presidente a esse crime. Procure se informar melhor.
@@misteremi666 Gado, com tanta merda que seu presidente expele pela a boca e a coisa atingindo essa proporção voce ainda tem a coragem de vir falar que é golpe da mídia que é o unico discurso que o seu presidente usa.
I would like to thank for this informative video. Tons of videos and comments here in Brazil and elsewhere in the world similarly talk quite the same thing but your video has added a new perspective : we need one another 'cause everything's intertwined and no one seems to care if a forest is not productive. Thanks again.
Thanks for raising awareness about this. As a brazilian I actually couldn't feel more ashamed about what is being done there. And in fact the fires were so bad that sao paulo, a city thousands of kilometers to the south suffered from a phenomenon in which the day became night because of the ashes of those fires and a storm coming together. It was just ridiculous. Anyway, thank you again and let's hope our president is convinced by science to do something
What are state governments for in federations, if not to protect local resources! Why can't state government in Brazil stop federal actions? I don't believe that all Brazilian governors are like him.
@Jubsy Saddinger do you really think i'm that stupid? I said that realizing it'd be a miracle, and what's wrong with that? I don't believe it will ever happen, what's the harm in hoping for a good conclusion? It's not like a believe it
@@andrefiliks "what's the harm in hoping for a good conclusion?" Because it's gigantic waste of time. Actions change the course of history, not hope. Spread awareness, try to reach groups that does not think the same as you. Explain. You have limited resources but it's still better than doing nothing and waiting for "hope" never to arrive. There is a reason why your nation choosed this government and understing why, is the only option in order to try and reverse it.
@@sion8 here in brazil, federal government overrules states decisions, specially when it comes to something as big as the amazon. it's not like the us where states are independent for the most part because, in theory, the federal government should have more resources to make better decisions. not the case right now, as you can tell.
@@juliagusmao2659 Well I can't tell you what to do with your country, but I suggest that all Brazilians reevaluate the federal-state relationship over there, because this cannot go on like this. If you feel different, let's agree to disagree and that's that.
@@RNG-999 When your country's politicians and news outlets are obsessed with sensationalism and generating "political scandals" in order to let the more important things fly under the radar, finding a news outlet in your language that isn't saturated with half-truths, editorials, clickbait and outrage becomes really hard.
@@SleepyFen what language are you talking about? There's no way you can't find something in English, a language that probably most news around the world are translated to.
Hank, I'm a brazilian sociologist. The situation in Brazil is becoming very drastic very fast. And the relation between knowledge and political projects is now a awful one. Federal Universities (the major producers of research in the country) are been heavly attacked and portrayed as a brainwashing space for the left to organize itself around "false" themes like global warming or gender equality. Bilions were taken from the education funds and were used to construct lobby for austerity politics. My own university may stop its activities this month. He often inidcate the use of statistics on his own social media decide and justify his decisions. A gigantic study published by the Fiocruz Institute about the false alegations of a drug epidemic in the country was simply ignored. Instead, a moralistic view of the phenomena conducts the directions for public action on the theme. Bolsonaro often lies about the dictatorship period in Brazil, prasing torture responsibles and saying that this were the good old times to wich he intends to bring back. We really don't know what to do. A Lot of protests and demonstrations have been organized, but they seem to have no effect at all.
Thank you for bringing this to the world's attention.... it is still going to be a problem, only if we purposely make it a problem... Our Planet is on fire, she weeps, she sorrows, she is burning alive. News has been out for a while about Bolsonaro's Destruction, I am still spreading the news about him, we all need to keep spreading the news about him, about our beautiful life source. #prayforamazonia #motherearth #gaia #conciousness
You are born during one of the most critical and important transition in the entire history of mankind, at least that's solethi g we can appreciate. Now we gotta work hard and help this world! The thing is : what we do today will be remembered forever by humans of the future.
@@simonrudduck8726 Here's some evidence: translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww1.folha.uol.com.br%2Fambiente%2F2019%2F08%2Fem-dia-do-fogo-sul-do-pa-registra-disparo-no-numero-de-queimadas.shtml
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Thank you for this video. We Brazilians are very concerned with this. Please forget the hateful comments. Is not most of the brazilians opinion 🙏
I am very glad to see that many Brazilians do care about this...but didn't 55% of the people who voted in the 2018 elections with a 79% turnout vote for Bolsonaro? Who made clear while campaigning that the Rainforest wasn't being effectively used for the good of the Brazilian people and that burning/logging should continue? That kind of makes it seem like it is the majority of the Brazillians opinion, or at least that most people care about it so little that it wasn't a dealbreaker in voting for Bolsonaro.
@@RaidsEpicly that's the issue: most people didn't find the awful things he said to be dealbreakers. but re: the turnout: voting is mandatory, it's just that you can vote for no one, so there were a lot of blanks, therefore: political apathy added strenght to the far-right movement as well.
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@@RaidsEpicly most of the votes were not for him.
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@@lorenabpv Yes. And don't forget the fake news. They did here the same that we saw on UK and US.
It's actually scary to be Brazilian and live here these days. I'm so glad there's someone that can talk about this is a way I don't know how to, and with such huge reach. Thank you, Hank! Sometimes we don't really know what to do but it feels less sucky to know people understand and actually see what's going on here.
Hello Victoria, I'm sorry I cannot recall the ecological activist's name, but he was murdered in his shower. The earth will be in continual upheaval until Jesus comes back, it's sad to say. As for the time being, satan is the god of this world. !_!
You should go protest people. Here in Greece we protested just to insure the survival of a national bear species. If I were Brazilian I would feel so angry that my national treasure is being compromised for money.
@@doodiehutchison4463 Washington state and the Amazon don't have much in common once you get past the obvious similarities of being wet and woody. The recovery after Mt. Saint Helens isn't a useful comparison.
I love that you made this So just a but more info The Amazon spreads across various South American countries including mine (Guyana) There are various countries who pay or are patrons to our countries to protect the rainforests we are blessed with. Because of what the Brazilian government is doing some patron countries did not renew their patronage. We know these fires are intentional because the indigenous people ( like the American indians) went to count to protect their home rge rainforests and won against the government of Brazil who want the land to produce agriculture solely to make money, as soon as the indigenous people won, these fires escalated. The Amazon needs help The forests are all of ours I've never written a comment this long But this is so close to home and it breaks my heart really badly to see the loss of our Amazonia it's flora, fauna and reserves. Thank you for this video
Wow! What a great job of highlighting the different issues affecting this deforestation problem. Thank you for actually covering this issue instead of spatting soundbytes. Our "news" outlets aren't covering the issue. Shocking, I know.
Lautenbug but then they are only doing what many other countries have done in the past, the USA and much of Europe among them. It’s not simply greed. We need to help countries like Brazil to progress economically without destroying their natural resources. ‘Look at what these awful people are doing’ is hypocritical and does help the situation.
Yes, Hank makes that point in the videos too. But as a human race, we know better than we did 200 years ago. I get it that people are just trying to make a better life. I'm from a third world country myself. But they are also aware of the larger ramifications of their actions, and are doing it anyway, just because they can now.
What is more upsetting is that here in Latin America we get headlines such as "The mysterious reason Sao Paolo went dark at 3pm" as if we didn't know its because of the fire. The deliberate misinformation happening everywhere is terrifying
People who eat meat and animal products are paying greedy people to destroy the Amazon. That's more accurate. Change your habits, change the world! Go vegan
Hey, have you'll heard about another search engine know as "ecosia".. their way of working is kinda really interesting. They plant 1 tree for 45 searches. I think everyone must definitely atlest try or reaserch about it.
You did an excellent job of covering many of the issues. I come from Zambia and have frequently seen the conflict between conservation and the economic benefits of not conserving and it is often a difficult situation, and Europeans (who conserved virtually nothing in their own countries) coming to tell us to conserve and starve is not always welcome. There usually are solutions that include conservation and economic benefit but they require work and a proper dialog with the local people - who usually do want to conserve but also want economic advancement. In Africa burning the bush each year is standard practice for much of Africa but it is not good for the soil and there are better practices, but that takes educating people on the benefits of not burning and different farming practices.
The worst part is that the only people who can do something about it aren’t. What are we supposed to do? Tariff, tax, sanction, invade Brazil? I’m being extreme but to be honest those are the only options that other nations have.
We go to the Amazon, and we burn the cows. We burn every farmer's cows to show them how painful it is to an animal when it loses what it loves, its home.
The other countries are NOT interested in helping us, they are interested in taking our natural resources. I don't support Bolsonaro at all but he is trying to fight the fires without selling the Amazon to you by internationalizing it. Amazon IS NOT the lung of the world, is the oceans. The most part of the oxygen that Amazon produces is consumed by itself. The forest is important because of fauna and flora, but the rest of the world's don't care about us and just want to make money!
Rex Longfellow that interesting reality of how he could say something like that with a net positive outcome for him, is that everyone has a different perspective dictated by ones morals and what they value.. To anyone with a good enough understanding of what really is climate change, how vital the Amazon rainforest is to the worlds atmosphere, and how deforestation in no really could not have any effect on the regional and global climate, what he says seems ridiculous.. making that statement seem, hypocritical To Bolsanaro and anyone with a strong enough nationalist view on the world, “no one is cutting and burning trees” is the reason for why people should cut and burn tress in order to put the economic interests first.. making that statement seem, reasonable..
@@YorHighness true the Amazon is so fake that's why all the video evidence of it existing all the species we've ever found there and all the scientific discoveries that have been made there are all false... you sound like a fucking clown
battousai9795 It’s because we all put different values on different things. What u think is precious may not be so important to another, or just not necessarily at that same time. Sometimes it’s because their needs and wants are different than urs. Sometimes certain group of people are being actively deceived by others like government, corporations/businesses, or groups/individuals that have some personal interest in the matter. Sometimes it’s because they’re ignorant, un/undereducated, or lacking information. Other times it’s because their value/belief system is just different than urs. Mix all these different points and u have the diversity in human beings and their deeds. Then expand all that crazy good/bad madness over a span of time. It’s okay. It also sucks at times. It is what it is. Only thing we can do is actively participate in matters, be educated, and be brave. For ourselves and the next generation.
You have every goddamned right to tell Brazil what they should do with their rainforests and so does every human on this planet. We live in an age were the actions of one bring consequences for everyone and the Amazon is an incredibly important ecosystem for everyone on Earth. We all have the right to say what should happen, because it influences all of us.
@@rusting_chard he means european colonialism and imperialism. what is happening in africa and asia is a post effect of colonialism and late stage capitalism
@@fkatwigsisthequeenofenglan4748 If it has direct connection to colonialism is debatable. Either way, this period is long gone, there are many post-colonial countries that took the right path after, so using this argument is just simply invalid and nothing more, than a mere excuse. No, the devastation of ecosystems does not resolve only to Brazil, China or India but also US and Russia. This is not a "colonialism" or "capitalism", this is simply GREED. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@rusting_chard Africa is on a mission to plant 1 billion trees whilst White people are building more cattle ranches. What about Africa? ua-cam.com/video/ZuZuqWVxD9o/v-deo.html
Given that beef production in the Amazon is driven by international markets rather than domestic consumption, it doesn't really seem like "nationalism" is the primary culprit here.
There’s the saying, I’m not sure by who but: “Only once the last tree has fallen, the last fish has been caught, and the last river has been poisoned, will we realize that we cannot eat money.” I sincerely hope it is wrong.
Apparently it's a Native American proverb that has been quoted by people throughout the decades. (couldn't really find any more information with my limited search ability)
@@itsmenelson3010 They hope that it won't come to that for us to realize what's truly important. But with how innately selfish humans are, who really knows....
You need to get out of the net and into action. Don't think about what to do you will never ever get any satisfying results only more despair. I've been barely surviving a massive depression for 15 years and from all that experience I can tell you the strategy that kept my alive and brought me to happiness despite all the shit that is still happening. Don't think! Move and keep moving! Find community and physical activity and never avoid the hard work necessary to maintain both. We will not find salvation in our heads and there is little we can do. So let's make the little we can do count. Maybe it will help humanity, maybe it doesn't. But at least it will help you and the is mire worth than just sitting uselessly around and panicking. It will get worse, Panik and depression will come but that's fine that's all part of life, breathe and keep moving, keep it simple. Good luck!
@@lavamatstudios because that will help to make them use their power responsible? Is the opposite, they will use it more selfish and destructive, that is not going to help. That is an egoistic attempt to turn the own bad feelings down by making "them" feel worse. And then you are the same as those in power and then you continue the same circle that brought us here in the first place.
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Bolsonaro is burning the rainforest : Ecological organizations : **ANGERY** Putin is burning Russian Taiga : Ecological organizations : "I don't even know who you are"
CORRECTIONS (Because of course)
1. I just said the widely-shared fact that the Amazon produces 20% of the world's oxygen without checking. This is not correct, and I should have checked it. The question of where the oxygen comes from is a complicated and interesting one and, frankly, I'd like to make a whole video about it. A good estimate is that the Amazon produces about 6% of the world's oxygen. Which still seems like an important amount.
2. The cat I show in the video is a jaguarundi, that's not a correction...just something lot of people asked about.
3. There's a lack of clarity in statistics right now, this isn't because scientists are bad, it's because the dry season is on-going and there are more fires every day and existing fires grow. So when we say "there are 88% more fires than last year* that doesn't necessarily mean "88% more land has been burned" nor is that number set in stone. Figuring out exact numbers from this year's fire season will take a long time because, like, the Amazon is very big and humans have to draw shapes on satellite maps.
You're wrong and you are passing a lot of false information. Everything is wrong in what you said. It's a real misinformation service. No laws have been changed. Set fire to the forest is a crime. Fires happen naturally every year. This year the fires are below average. The Amazon rainforest does not produce 6% of the world's oxygen, almost all of the oxygen produced is consumed by the forest itself. You are also misusing data. Fire outbreaks are not 88% larger than previous years. With a little attention you will realize that this data makes no sense since fires have been below the annual average for the past 15 years.
About the concern of other countries with the Amazon.
No country cares about Amazon trees. There is no non-governmental organization caring about any other ecosystem in Brazil. When the Brumandinho and Mariana dams broke down and killed thousands of people and destroyed several cities nobody cared. Even with toxic tailings contaminating thousands of miles. And it happened in 2019.
What other countries are interested in is below the Amazon.
98% of world niobium reserves and much more.
Danilo Moura do you have sources to back up your claim on his misinformation?
@@danilomoura9663 It sounds to me like you are the one spreading disinfo here, not Hank. BTW Hank gave sources for most of his claims. You gave not even *one* source for your counter-claims. Your claim about niobium reserves is especially incredible. So put up or shut up.
BTW, even if it were true that that is where 98% of the world's niobium is, that would *weaken* your case, since it provides even more incentive for Brazilian mining companies to destroy forest with their mines.
@@1madlilgrunt The G7 meeting that just happened did not impose sanctions on Brazil either. French President Emmanuel Macron was talking to the walls alone. ( I don't know how to translate the expression, but I think it was understood that he was ignored and was still interrupted by other leaders) He started this wave of fake news with a 1989 photo.
France has some interests in the Amazon region and macron fears not being reelected. He tried to look good to farmers in northern France.
France, the country that made 193 nuclear tests in Polynesia and destroyed 99.7% of the original vegetation.
You should really watch One Strange Rock on Netflix
“we eat that rain”
that really struck me the most
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil NASA is stating rates of fire are seasonally average. This is just G7 summit hype.
Interesting
@@stevencooper4422 The rate of fire across the ENTIRE AMAZON BASIN is close to average. If you look at data regarding only the Brazilian Amazon, you'll see this year is completely atypical, it has the highest rate of deforestation in Brazil since 2005, which was also an atypical year.
@@stevencooper4422 "Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará": Mato Grosso (which literally means Thick Woods btw) has been so thoroughly deforested there is no more Amazon to burn in the state, so obviously it's below average. Pará has a different curve than other states. Amazonas and Rondônia are precisely the states where protected forest reserves are being invaded and burned. Native indigenous people, who live in and protect the forest, are being killed by local farmers and land-grabbers.
@@stevencooper4422 Bottom line: there is nothing normal about what's happening in Brasil right now.
As a Brazilian who actually cares for the Amazon, I'd like to thank you for addressing this topic.
ps: some brazilian lunatics are going to comment hateful things. they are allergic to science and logic, so just ignore them.
Pietro Leonardi Candido Olivetti It’s hard to ignore people who basically want to remove the earths oxygen supply.
Edit - I would like to retract my first comment after being talked into the fact that the Amazon Rainforest isn’t part of the earths oxygen supply. I needed to do more research and I now see the error of my ways. Thanks for the help of the UA-cam comments section allowing reasoned discussions to flourish. It’s hard to admit that I didn’t know what I was talking about, but I feel, in doing so, I’ve definitely grown as a person. Thanks guys.
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@@TheInternetIsDeadToMe you're correct, man, but I said it in a more "don't feed the troll" way. Obviously something has to be done in a pragmatic manner.
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It’s okay. Every single country/society has ‘those’ kind of people amongst themselves.
“It is why we need to call a lie a lie, no matter who says it”
I love that.
Yeah, if you can prove that it is a lie, not just saying for the sake of saying when you actually have no proof.
Isaque Paz da Silva Right, as he did in this video.
@@izzycruz6289 actually he don't, he just says "the president says yada yada and it's a lie". He don't say why it's a lie and says other stuff that are fake.
he should practice what he preaches.
this vid is mostly an anti-nationalist ideological rant.
it would help if he actually knows anything about the legal processes and politics in brazil - which he clearly does not.
test Thank you, I appreciate your opinion and perspective, I’ll look more into other sources.
Thanks for raising awareness on this, Hank. As a brazillian that fights for science and the enviroment, I feel strangled by nationalism and global warming deniers. We REALLY need a international shake on this.
What, realistically should Americans do?,
Global warming is a hoax. It's called summer time
@@GravityGamingCo I stoppd caring when the people who scream the loudest about it ignored nuclear energy as a solution. They seemed too busy using it as a Trojan horse to push socialism.
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A Big Red G are you willfully ignorant, or just stupid? It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere
"We need to call a lie a lie, no matter who says it."
WELL SAID!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Sohini Dutta
Well said while saying lies...
Easier said than done. How do you know a lie from a truth? It's obvious sometimes, but others...
And how about all the religious leaders who lie about a bearded white man in the sky.
I'm sooo PISSED the media used this as fake news for political purposes!
You made a mistake, but plenty of the politicians and newscasters knew as this is what the farmers do there every year.
"The earth isn't dying it's being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses."
- Utah Phillips
And their days are numbered
No it’s not. We will be gone for billions of years and Earth will still be doing fine.
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 your stupid why do people keep saying this we should not be the ones killing everything. And you would not even know if that is true or not stupid.
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 what you are referring to is the fact that the likelihood of humans destroying earth, as in the earth is no longer a planet, is unlikely and not entirely realistic. However, we are destroying earth as it is now. The earth that humans and other flora and fauna we need to survive, are familiar with. May we go extinct? Possibly. However, given our abilities, the only thing that would cause us to go extinct, is ourselves. I mean seriously, our only natural enemy left is, like, gigantic asteroids, and us.
We'll assume for the sake of this conversation you also believe man made climate change is fake. Okay, it's fake and we've put all these ecological laws and green laws into place for no reason. Is it for no reason? What are you going to lose if we have preservational laws and green laws that lead to cleaner water sources, more water resources, cleaner rivers, garbage isnt just laying on the banks of highways anymore. Who knows, the homeless population could decrease because there are more jobs available and so much more I'm not even considering right now. Why is it a waste of time to care about our home? Do you just throw trash all over your house and shit on the floor and burn the bathroom down because it would make more room for your sweet, sick man cave? I hope not cuz wow lol. The earth is our home. And we need to take care of it right now.
The Earth isn’t being killed. The life on it is. In time, the Earth will always recover from any disaster thrown at it. We won’t.
Thank you for this video. I recently did a school project on this subject and it was crazy the number of articles that just said that the amazon was burning but if you dig even just a little bit below the surface you can see that these fires aren't natural and are a work of generaly agriculture. Thank you for shedding light on this issue that very little people actually know about
A lot of the trees in the Amazon are being replaced with oil palms. In effect, the forest is still there. Just the type of trees has been changed. Palm oil is a valuable resource and the industry employes a lot of people.
@@charlesaanonson3954 this is so stupid. Replacing a highly diverse ecosystem that has stood for millions of years with one type of plant for farming and economic uses is erasing its biodiversity and poses a great danger to the species that live in it, because they didnt evolve living with just palm oils, they evolved in the amazon forest and have very specific niches. Plus continuous farming will deplete the soil which means they will need to remove more and more of the amazon and eventually reducing it into nothing like we did with so many old growth forests. Countries in southeast asia have done the same and have become the biggest exporters of palm oil and as a result see more and more dangerous wildfires every year. So not only will you be endangering millions of exotic species that cant live elsewhere, you’ll be removing the amazon’s ecosystem services which help fight climate change. This is all for profit
@Boop The Nose yeah
The forest is our... Why don't you plant yours instead of telling us to stop? while you continue to pollute the world with your factories? stop being a hypocrite
Thank you for making this video. There is so much information floating around out there and it's been difficult to cut through the noise. I appreciate the research you put into this :) I'm off to share it now.
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Thanks Kati!
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What, realistically, can we Americans do?
@@lauriestrommen1897 lead by example, grow your forests back
“We eat rain” - Hank Green, 2019
WE DOOOOOO
Baby Shark DOOOOOO
We do
@@vlogbrothers It's a good observation; since this is, well, the RAIN forests; raising cattle is very water inefficient.
While Brazil is going to have a lot more cattle soon, if they go too far with burning their rain forest, they will ironically not be able to supply their own cattle with water anymore, because it won't be captured by their rain forest any longer and just mix with dirt to become non-potable sludge.
Shifting gears for a minute; The biggest export from Brazil is actually soy. Now, that might lead people to believe that that means vegetarianism is to blame for this, but it's more complicated than that. In a theoretical scenario where there was no demand for soy by vegans, there would be a demand for meat (which, as mentioned before, is less resource efficient, though more financially efficient) instead. Human ambition always exceeds our resources (that's literally the first line in my old economic textbook), so if it wasn't for soy, it would have been for meat (which would have been worse). However, the second part of this is;
Soy is used as cattlefeed. Yeah, soy isn't being grown as a billion dollar industry to keep vegans supplied with protein, it's being used to supply cows with protein.
In other words. Yeah. Yeah we really do eat that water, though. And not just because it rains in America. In fact, we eat that water condensing in Brazil too. By, like, a lot.
Talia Fore 😂
Nepal is also facing this problem they(the government) wanna clear out a huge area of forest for an airport(in place called Nijgadh,Bara)... this adversely affects the elephants and bengal tigers habitats... the country men who have knowledge about this are raising voices but its not enough... for any fellow nepalese reading this i urge you to spread the word amongst your community... for the foreign community you too can help spread the voice so it doesnt have to suffer the fate like amazon... also if theres anything at my level to help amazon please let me know... sincerely
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Lumbini Airport?
@@jerisii5198 no the new one under planning
I think the only thing that can help,even if not much, is by donating to ONG's. I dont know any that can be trustful but some youtubers like Pewdiepie Twitted about some that you can donate to
I hope this reaches out to more people.
As a Brazilian, I know every brazilian comment will start with: "As a brazilian".
Can you use your credentials to recommend grooming techniques?
Incorrect
@@MilwaukeeF40C As a Brazilian, I have no idea where the term "Brazilian wax" comes from and why is it associated with us.
@@giovannirafael5351 I am dating a South American but she is super Catholic. How much of a misnomer is that? I get no refunds or exchanges when I find out first hand.
Brazilian Nationalist: Indigenous people of Brazil are not real Brazilian.
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money." 😢
IonicGecko
What money ?
By that point only the rich would have the money but they would be as poor as everyone else because their money would no longer mean anything.
@@cezarcatalin1406 exactly
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TheCrazyKid1381 It’s not just white people. The Chinese are doing it too.
"I have a problem with reality. There's too much of it." Could I get this on a t-shirt?
Yes please omg
I like the quote, but remember a single t-shirt takes 1500 Liters of freshwater to make.
@@najarvis shit you're right.. i'd like a fairtrade shirt at least.
Yess my existence would be complete
Coffee mug.
As a Brazilian who wants to start a science career and that cares about the environment (specially the Amazon) it really makes me happy that people like you Hank, are able to spread the real information about what's happening here. Thank you for your support!
Totally agree. Sadly, our media in the UK is hopeless. So much fake news. Thankfully we have You Tube. But who knows for how long? As a scientist, would you look into my Japanese Knotweed research. Saving trees, and creating Japanese Knotweed paper: butterflylullaby.blogspot.com/2019/07/japanese-knotweed-paper-saving-trees.html
This plant is really hated in the UK. I use Japanese Knotweed in my smoothies and it keeps me Asthma free.
Do you have this plant in your Country?
butterflylullaby.blogspot.com/2019/05/japanese-knotweed-mortgage-uk.html
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Você faz jus a seu nome... um inútil e burro.
@@DroNNIOfficial interessante. Você poderia ao menos me dizer o que no meu comentário o fez concluir que eu sou burro. Caso diga que "todo o comentário já exprime isso" eu não gostaria de continuar o diálogo. Além disso, ao me insultar acredito que você já esteja esclarecendo seu nivel de inteligencia.
@@pabloparraguez4724 Aonde estava sua preocupação nos anos anteriores? de 2000 a 2017 a amazônia perdeu uma área equivalente ao tamanho da Alemanha, e segundo dados da Nasa, os índices de incêndios são os menores nesse ano, por que essa mídia, você e políticos populistas estão se preocupando só agora? Você não deve ser burro mesmo, é apenas um mau caráter.
Holy shit, that is an amazing perspective. It raises the question of whether the international community is obligated to reward and compensate nation states for preserving universal resources. It's not as crazy an idea as it sounds - analogous to the government giving tax credits for private citizens donating money to charities endorsed by the same government.
oddly, there's this carbon offset movement, which, theoretically, should have done exactly that. But so far, it is panning out to be an exercise in creative accounting, and the money might go to the very people burning the forest down
It's actually been debated hotly here in Brazil for years. Protecting the Amazon costs us millions, if not billions, and of course it's obvious it's the right thing to do, but considering that doing that IS a favor to the whole world, not just to ourselves (even if we're doing a lousy job as of right now thanks to Bolsonaro's scorched land strategy), the most favored view here is that we shouldn't, as a mid-to-low income economy, carry that weight on our own, which is actually one of the reasons even many fairly pro-US journalists and commentators couldn't help interpreting Biden's 50-million promise for the Fundo Amazônia early this year as some kind of offence or, at best, a show of how badly the US "empire" is doing (especially considering that, at the same time, China proposed some much more advantageous deals). Basically, rich countries have become rich on the backs of exploitation of colonies/states in their sphere of influence and environmental disaster, and it's not fair that they expect us not only to fix it, but fix on our own, at the cost of other things we could be doing to our people (and it's a lot to do with not that many resources, as we aren't a developed country).
The problem is that accepting money from outside does mean we end up with the obligation to be held accountable - sometimes even downright have other countries try to tell us what we should or shouldn't do. John Kerry literally said that the Amazon was "everyone's" to Marina Silva, the Minister of Environment, leading to a very awkward moment in which she had to say that it is, after all, Brazilian land, in late February this year (or early March, I don't remember anymore). It isn't a lie when the extreme right claims that the rest of the world has interests in undermining our sovereignty in the Amazon. But the answer to it isn't burning the forest to the ground so nobody else can use it.
"I have a problem with reality. There's too much of it." We need t-shirt.
That's true, one of the reasons so many people get apathetic towards problems like this is because there's just _too much_ information like this. We hear about stories like this all the time, each story fed to us from multiple political positions so we effectively get 2 or 3 stories for every event like this and people just get overloaded.
Lol
www.customink.com/designs/realitys/ujw0-00by-nfe1/share?pc=EMAIL-40778&
@@arthas640 you mean lies right? That is the real problem. With the advent of social media lies spread like wild fires. It is important for people to be more honest and check their facts before posting and/or making videos such as this one. I was born in Brazil and have lived there until my adulthood and the Amazon has been neglected for years and years. Indians have been murdered, fires have occurred during 30 years of leftist leaning governments and NO ONE has ever said anything. Why now? I find it interesting. STOP SPREADING THE LIES!
That's why i play video games
"we don't live in an economy, we live on a planet" - someone on the internet
Yup.....a planet that is not gonna be here for very long.
Karl Polányi, economic historian, said that with the creation of capitalism, the economy is no longer embedded into society, but now the society is embedded into the economy. He also said that capitalism needs labour, land and money to turn into commodities. "The Great Transformation" is the title of his book if anyone is interested in sociology.
There is no such "living" if is there no economy
Exactly, without oxygen, there´s no "market".
@@rayray2528 What astronomical event occurring in the not "very long" future have I missed? It is my understanding that this planet will be here until the sun becomes a red giant and consumes the earth and whatever life remains on it.
Anyways, thanks for doing this, Hank. As a Brazilian living abroad in this post truth era I really don't know who and what to believe, and I trust you. Let's do this!!
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Yes, recently there has been an increase in burning in the Amazon. That's true.
But it is not true that the current government has made changes to the law that encourage deforestation.
Brazilian agribusiness has nothing to do with what is happening there at the moment.
There are land grabbers and some fake NGOs (they are close to one hundred thousand NGOs in the region ... yeah) that promote destruction there.
Many NGOs (funded by foreigners), whose purpose is to protect the forest on the façade, actually serve the purpose of preventing Brazil from exploiting the region itself in a sustainable way.
Research the environmental crimes of Hydro Alunorte. It is an ore company whose main shareholder is the government of Norway. This company is responsible for one of the largest cases of dumping of iron ore tailings in Amazon River springs.
Anyone who thinks that the interest of the great powers in the Amazon has to do with preserving the planet's forest or biodiversity is either too naive or is playing dumb.
The subsoil of the Amazon region is one of the richest in ores in the world. It has to and will be explored someday, sustainably preferably.
Whether Germany, France or England care so much about the environment that their countries reforest. Rebuild their own destroyed ecosystems in past generations.
Brazil is already the country that most preserves its native forests worldwide. We already do our homework very well. We have over 66% of our preserved native forest. The EU has only 25%, China 17% USA 14%.
In fact, in recent days Brazil is suffering a media attack that will serve as a protectionist measure disguised as environmental concern. The mainstream American media uses the environmental narrative hypocritically, cynically, to create barriers to Brazilian exports of agricultural products and animal protein, not to mention minerals. Many foreign producers cannot compete with our meat, milk and grain production and so use alleged environmental crimes to restrict Brazil's access to international trade. They use the environmental preservation discourse to hijack Brazil's Amazon and place it under international tutelage so that Brazil never uses its economic and geopolitical potential in a sustainable way.
The fire has also spread to the east side of the Bolivian territory (where I'm from) and has consumed a large portion of our natural reserves.
It took almost a month for the government to seek international help, (since we don't have the means to fight against this kind of disasters) and still is heavily undermining the HUGE damage that's already been done.
All because of the same nationalist views they have.
We need help in Bolivia as well!
Jesus Oliva exactly Bolivia is like right next to Brazil (which it is) and nobody is caring about the others. Like Siriname and Venezuela and Columbia. They just care about the big ones like brazil, Argentina and Peru. FRICK EVERYONE ELSE. None of the neighbors are allowed to help. I mean it’s pointless because it would be faster and local. They just want America and EVERYONE TO HELP which can’t happen.
Jesus Oliva is American, at the time he thought that Brazil is a Mexico west side.
@@floydsanimations9219 Not true. We care a lot about Venezuela. But first President Chavez and then President Maduro refused all genuine help from outside insisting on pillaging the country instead. And Venezuelans have no one else to blame for this, since they voted for both these vultures.
The fires in Bolivia is larger than the fires in Brazil. But people only talks about the fires in the Brazilian side... I know why.. Because Bolsonaro stop the stealing of gold, diamonds, oil, etc from European nations, others. So now they are pissed off about Brazil while in Bolivia they are free to steal
@@andreramos192 No, that is not why. Most Americans at least know where Brazil is. So fire there has better profile here.
Remember the movie The Lorax? We are gonna be buying manufactured air in a bottle at some point in the future
OK Peachie they're already doing that in parts of China.
But in the end they beat the bad guy and grow trees again so....
@@tvv1881 you can't have a bad ending in a kids movie
foosmonkey Good point. They are terrible with being concerned about the environment, but demand their citizens behave according to their rules with social credit scores and surveillance cameras to watch them.
OK Peachie and plastic trees
This is really depressing and it makes me very very angry.
Where is Captain Planet when you need him.
OMG YESSS
It was suppose to be us but mankind care so little for itself and their home
WHERE IS THE CARE OF BRAZIL? (just the goverment) everybody cares in Brazil... BeEIDES THE GOVERMENT
WHERE IS THE CARE OF BRAZIL? (just the goverment) everybody cares in Brazil... BeEIDES THE GOVERMENT
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All this earth killing for money just makes me so so so incredibly sad and angry.
go out and do something! plant trees, learn about ecosystem restoration! all the best, everyone with a functioning heart feels deep pain and frustration about what we are doing to earth. but we cant make those feelings over power us. we must go out and bring change!
One persons "earth killing for money" is another's farming to feed people, China is the largest importer of Brazilian agricultural goods, lots of hungry mouths to feed.
@@Homunculas china is also one of the biggest growing markets for meat consumption. we could feed all of us easily and restore huge parts of the earths ecosystems if we all went vegan.
Stiliani Fakidaraki this 1000%. Does so much great for the world.
@@stilianifakidaraki3724
Tell that to the Government of the Amazon Rain Forest... Brazil.
Me : "I hope ICE and Amazon gets destroyed"
The polar ice cap : *melts*
The Amazon rainforest : *gets burned*
Me : "Wait no"
Aries The Ram It’s better if ICE stays exactly where it is, America is too full anyway, and the last thing we need is even more migrants. Instead of moving to ours, they should fix their own, and if they’re not capable of that, then they aren’t worthy of the good conditions we’ve made for ourselves anyway.
I agree
Commander Rockwell you understand my man you get a like
Satan Thanks, mate.
@@commanderrockwell1123 You might be interested in this video: ua-cam.com/video/mhlAEqf39Sg/v-deo.html
This need portuguese subtitles to go viral in Brazil
Americans an European destroy their forests. Now they want to give us a lesson to how to protect. Hypocrisy!
And there we have it, someone who didn't watched it all
Hendrick Cavalcante Moron, Coniferous forests just like in western america are normal, and in some tree species, Crucial... Fires are needed there... But fires are 100% dangerous in *Rainforests*! Don’t twist the facts!
@@Hendrick696 Bolsominion detected.
@@Hendrick696 Just because they were idiots doesn't mean you have to be too
*Forestry is a profitable business.* Keep the forest managed, instead of burning it !
Europe and Japan is growing more and more forests. The USA should create more forestry, because Brazilian politics seem to be exiting the sanity zone.
europe? where? Japan is dying...
They are out of the sanity zone from the start, that's why they won
@@williamebel4763 Japan is one of the most sustainable and ecologically responsible country's that exist. It has kept it's parks, any time there is a environmental catastrophe it will stand a hand (as they know what it is to lose its home, expect it's by nature) and it probably has the best recycling systems there is, name other country that completely reutillizes milk boxes, have in any consumable related place a post for you to deposit some kind of recyclables?
Japan in it's nature aways look for the future and what they'll give for the future generations
@@williamebel4763 Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark... there's actually a lot. www.traveldailymedia.com/green-cities-in-europe/
@@williamebel4763Ebel do you mean Europeans doing forestry in New Zealand?
as a Brazilian living under this administration thank you for taking the time to educate people like this with the platform that you have
Except for when Hank helped get support for Bolsonaro by praising Moro, 3 years ago.
@@paulopenteado5552 Well, we all agree that Moro didn't look so bad at that time...
@@libniteles and who said he is looking bad now? He is a national hero until now ^.-
@@SuperzygarieI don't agree ... and I have many reasons for that, but I can summarize that your actions were very disappointing to me (like becoming a minister)
Do you guys realize everyone here in this thread is able to speak and understand Portuguese?
Many country's need to make an investigation and lawsuit against those oil companies
Rainforest: I just wanna help you breathe...
People: Eh.... I'll breathe my money...
but money grows on trees so
If we kill the rich there'll be more oxygen for the rest of us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Plankton: At least they don't know we do the real work
People: Lemme just make the ocean acidic
You know test RainForest making a 20% of oxygen and he takes its just an Ecosystem
@@Martarini it does grow on trees because paper is made from it
I'm Brazilian and I'm so scared... We are under a cruel and destructive government and a very loud percentage of people believe in crazy conspiracies and completely ignore science and data, it is very frustrating and really hard to stay sane here. Thank you for reminding us that we are on the right side of history, thank you for speaking up.
@@eltsouza3 So screw science and humanity all in the name of profit. Do I have that right? This kind of arrogance will kill us all. Newsflash, those resources are only valuable if other countries are willing to trade. Do you think other countries will be willing to trade with Brazil as they burn down a the largest single source of oxygen on the planet? Stop being so ignorant and WAKE UP!
@@eltsouza3 No no he want to save our resourcez by burning them down he not cruel and destructive he love mi
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bolsonaro2022 better be scared dear leftist
I fear The United States is set on that path. It would be easy to imagine trump is the center of this destruction but the horrifying truth is that he is a small symptom.
as a brazilian, this is why voting is important. we're dealing with this partly because capitalism and cattle farming, but also because we let an irresponsible person get elected due to political apathy. there's the destruction of universities, of climate laws, of the healthcare system etc. like we say around here, "it's not a consequence, it's a project". when a president goes on tv gaslighting the people and saying the climate change is a myth or that it's something the oppositiojn invented to criticize him. anyway, long-winded comment to remidn you all that there's no such thing as being apolitical, there's just being apathic in the face of destruction (of climates, human rights, cities, forests, everything).
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The universities are not being destructed, the healthcare system is not being destructed, not in Brasil anyway.
Tea
@@wagnergauer9133 not in which alternate-universe Brasil?
@@wagnergauer9133 no? just exponential habitat destruction that has a chance to affect 20% of the oxygen we breath. k. but u say the healtcare and universities are a o k so all is well here
"Nationalism is uninherently an exclusionary ideology. And the reason, so often, nationalism, fascism & racism walk together..". Incredibly poignant! I admire how articulate, insightful & educative ur video was. And how earnestly u spoke about it.... Deeply appreciated!
Go to hell and take your socialism with you. As a Brazilian I say "Stay out of my country!"
Clearly you have not watched the entirety of the video.
All kinds of statism are found with all other kinds of statism. Fascism and socialism go together.
@@UsurperUrsus Fascism and socialism are not a dichotomy.
Thank you for being the voice of calm reason Hank. I appreciate a clear explanation of what is a deeply troubling topic.
Oh he's not calm. He's super pissed.
@@Saternalia Yes, but he presents the urgency with a calm perspective and will also appeal to people who don't waste their time watching broadcast news.
@@Saternalia He's definitely pissed but the video is pretty calm. I completely understand why and he and all of us here and abso-fucking-lutely livid though .
as a Brazilian living under this administration thank you for taking the time to educate people like this with the platform that you have
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earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil Educate yourself, man. This is seasonally average fire coverage in the Amazon region. People just wanted to hype things up before the G7 global summit.
@@stevencooper4422 Editor’s Note: This story was updated on 22 August 2019 to clarify our data source.
It proves the point made on the video.
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"Smoke from wildfires in the #AmazonRainforest spreads across several Brazilian states in this natural-color image taken by a @NASAEarth instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite. Although it is fire season in Brazil, the number of fires may be record-setting: t.co/NVQrffzntr pic.twitter.com/4JTcBz9C8f
- NASA (@NASA) August 21, 2019"
The Amazon isn't Burning, It's Being Burned...that's right
@Breno Ferreira hahaha
@Breno Ferreira 🤣🤣
But if it is being burnt, isn't it burning? 🤦🏻♂️
In Portuguese nothing changes is being burned or is burning is all in the present
Rob Alfie Inostroza-Lindley It means, somebody is burning it, not just some natural wild fire
if we lose the amazon, this is the Fattest L humans are going to have to take
no
Fattest L we took was being born
guess ill live to the max
Todd Elswick Just humans existing
based
"when you have more of an allegiance to an ideology than the truth."
Thank you so much for this coverage. This is a terrifying event and I think you have stated it more honestly than anyone else I have seen.
u look so young what the hell, ive been watching you since high school and you look ABSOLUTELY the same
Thelma Ghinaya being unproblematic must keep you looking young LOL
There are only two possible explanations: a) He's immortal, or b) These are all pre-recorded and he's either able to see the future or a time traveling historian
MJ Ross case in point: andy samberg
He may not be of this earth. ;)
He stays out of the sun, he doesn’t concern himself with petty drama, gets enough sleep and is probably a minimalist. Just guessing.
We really gonna be living in the Lorax Cinematic Universe
*UNLESS*
not only just cutting the trees, but also burning it
cant wait to buy me some bottled air
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees and they say 'Could you fucking not?' "
It's almost like electing a fascist was a bad move.
Bolsonaro and his troupe of protofascists is just a passing wave, just like Trump. I believe that our next President will have more environmental commitment.
Nations: “stop killing your lungs your breathing for all of us”
Brazil: “Grow your own lungs”
*The brazilian government
Arthur Eredia Soumailli Yes, it is.
@vDosc UV7 Yeah, the oxygen produced is typically consumed by the creatures living there, so it doesn't produce much oxygen for the rest of the world. That being said, the amazon rainforest functions as an extremely important carbon sink, thus the loss of it will greatly increase greenhouse gas levels globally.
I hate Brazilian president he should go to hell😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
vDosc UV7 thank you so much I've been trying to get this point across to so many people but they just don't listen
We are living in The Lorax.
I am the Lorax
I speak for the trees
Stop burning the rainforest
Or I'll break both your knees
@JJoe That's about the worst whataboutism you could pick
Nate and Noah Try Life yes
@JJoe What the hell are you going on about? Why even include the El Paso shooter here? Trying to defend the burning of the Amazon? I see YOU must belong among the ranks of the "Low Iq".
JJoe When humanity goes out as a result of the destruction of the Amazon, it will be people like you that are to blame.
“We eat that rain”. Thank you Hank for the perspective 🖖🏼
I rarely comment on youtube videos, but this time I would like to thank you personally for standing up for this issue. I’m a brazilian teacher and some months ago I was just a little worried about the strange outcome of our democratic elections. But now I confess: I’m completely terrified about the brazilian government and specially the inaction, blindness or misinformation of our people.
My teenage students, my family and some dear friends somehow don’t see nothing wrong been done by the latest government decisions about the environment, educations and people rights. Our people are applauding some unbelievable government decisions, mostly based on hunches and bravatas, with the excuse of “cleaning the country of corruption and communists”. Studies and scientific data supporting programs and initiatives that made a positive difference, are been discredit and dismissed. Our people are accepting almost anything from the government with some vague and emotional promises of a better future. People are distrusting facts and science and promptly believing in poorly written fake news and political allegations.
We’re getting tired of losing friends and loved ones by simply trying to talk to them, to discuss those issues in a peaceful, respectful and scientific manner. I’m afraid our people don’t want to listen, they want blood. The blood of “them”, the others, the mystical culprits of each and every person frustrations. And a large portion of our population see our president as a messiah, who points it’s fingers at whoever should be considered the culprit of those promises of greatness not been fulfilled. But he is making the same kind of vague and impossible promises, the irony.
Keep up the good work by informing the citizens of the world, by bringing the light of science in this times of greater need. The world need good people like you to inspire us, to give us hope, to not be defeated by the impossible odds. I don’t want to be silent at this crucial moment of my country and today, dear John and Hank, you just gave me the strength I needed to keep on fighting :) Let’s try to recover the common sense, one person at a time.
welcome to America..
....wait..😗😗😗
Rainforest: I will help you breath and live and thrive and be healthy! \(ϋ)/
Humans: But money
Rainforest: But I....
Humans: money
Rainforest: I will help you breath and live and thrive and be healthy! \(ϋ)/
Carnists: But hamburgers
Rainforest: But I....
Carnists: MUST HAZ CHEEZEBURGER!!
Ain't my fault. I don't eat sentient creatures.
Rainforest: I will help you breath and live and thrive and be healthy! \(ϋ)/
Humans: but u no wifi
Rainforest: But I....
Humans: wifi
(remember that meme that people less favoring planting trees because it emits oxygen and not wifi signals?)
Money is useless when there are no humans left to spend it.
#notallhumans
#butprobablymostofus
@@watchableraven3517 so wath you a going to do noting?
The ocean actually produces most of our oxygen. Oh wait, we're destroying that, too.
We are literally destroying everything that keeps us alive
You sure lol?
@@Awoken- I think
Good thing, then I don't actively have to pursue suicide methods. Just wait and watch. My new mantra.
doub b SOMEONE INTELLIGENT spoke!
This reminds me when in Ecuador we had huge mangroove forest that were ideal for shrimp farming so everyone cut them down to make shrimp farms, killing the protective enviroment the mangroove provided, when El Niño phenomenon struck more than 50% of shrimp farms were knocked out, because mangrove help contain drain water without it eroding too much, but it was slashed and burned.
This will happen again, rainfores thrive because they make rain and that rain travels the globe, not only Brazil will suffer from droughts the whole continent will do, many Brazilian rivers will starve from lack of water, because they are fed not by the Andes but by the rain that the Amazonas brings, and when a new Niño strikes down entire cities will drown in river fury because the net of roots that absorbed that extra water will not be where they should.
This should be the top comment
Similar things happen in Florida as people clearing mangroves to make room for housing. It also makes storm surges from hurricanes more dangerous.
Some humans can be so stupid in their greed!
They will not drown, the people in inland Brazil will simply be long moved out, forced by endless drought. Want to know what Brazil looks like without its forest recyling most of its water in its own evaporation-rain cycle? Just look at inland Australia.
Up. I was catching my breath for the lack of punctuation but i figured that perhaps this is the effect of not taking care of mother nature so that is why even punctuations are running scarce
Hey! So, I'm a brazilian, and first of all I'd like to thank you for making a video on this important topic and spreading such important information. Even though the Amazon doesn't produce so much of the world's oxygen, it still produces a quite large amount of it (6% is important, people). But there's some investigation being done by our Federal Police over these fires and there has been some progress: about 50 people were found guilty of setting fires in some parts of the brazilian Amazon for a bunch of different reasons, and it was established that the fires are being widely commented due to political reasons. Allow me to explain: there is already evidence of people that were burning the Amazon using gasoline and such inflammable substancies, and the background to that was already checked and is still undergoing more investigation. Do we know why these people were doing what they were doing? Well, yes. Some of them were part of ONGs (organizations that don't seek profit) that were created with the objective of protecting the Amazon from this kind of thing. But why would people that were compromised with protecting the Amazon burn it to ashes? It is known that these organizations were kept alive by government funding, and our president Jair Bolsonaro has cut this funding to the majority of these organizations. So what he said about the organizations burning down the Amazon forest in protest to reclaim their funding isn't just speculation, but a fact supported by evidences gathered by the Federal Police by a thorough investigation. These organizations aren't only trying to get their money back: they're trying to give the population the sense that their services are needed because when they're away, the Amazon faces this kind of problems. Basically, they're creating the demand for their own services. And aside from them, part of the people who were arrested and are being investigated were burning down the Amazon for the very reason you spoke of: they want to clear land so they can use it to create animals and/or do other things related to agricultural activity. And, despite all of that, there's a lot of things left unclear by the media. If you see the statistics regarding the fires that occured in the Amazon in the last few years, you'll see that the current year is way behind others like 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010. Of course, the statistics respective to the current year are still incomplete, and we'll only be able to say accurately if the actual burnings are bigger or smaller than the previous ones. You can find all this data in the INPE website (National Spatial Research Institute/Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Espacial), which is queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/portal-static/estatisticas_estados/. In this page, you'll be able to see the statistics regarding the burnings in every region of our country until this very day. All you've got to do is filter the statistics by region and select "Amazônia Legal" (legal Amazon). That being done, you'll see by scrolling down a detailed chart specifying the months, numbers and, at the bottom of the page, a graphic. INPE also provides satelite images that show the fires in the whole country's territory, where you can zoom in and out of any region you'd like to investigate: queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/bdqueimadas.
These are websites where you can verify every fact and statistic I mentioned above: g1.globo.com/pa/para/noticia/2019/08/26/governo-do-pa-diz-que-identificou-cerca-de-50-envolvidos-com-queimadas-no-pa.ghtml, g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/noticia/2019/04/25/sobe-para-26-numero-de-presos-no-am-em-operacao-da-pf-contra-desmatamento-ilegal-na-amazonia.ghtml, earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil.
By analysing all of this data, it is indeed possible to say that, altough people who supposedly took on the responsability of protecting the Amazon are burning it down, this year's fires are in sume really below average, and thus all the publicity it is receiving is occurring in order to blame Bolsonaro for a problem that is not his fault (why would he keep funding organizations that not only don't prevent fires (if they did, the past years would have better statistics overall, don't you think?), but create them in order to get back their funding? Think about it as if these guys were firefighters. Their job is to prevent and extinguish fires, and they receive public money for doing that. But for some reason, no fire is happening in the last few years, so their funding is diminished and, to force the government into bumping up their funding again, they start burning forests and such. It's what these guys are doing, except they're so useless and uncomitted with their own work that even when they received lots of money to do their work, the Amazon burned way more than it is burning now). Plus, great part of the fires should be extinguished in some time, as Bolsonaro sent the army to deal with the problem, since it's a cheaper and effective way to solve the problem.
Thanks a lot and keep up the great work!
I have never met any brazilian called hendril
This is exactly what I was about to write. People need to know the truth, the real truth instead of being out there saying whatever they want. Funding organizations just want money, let be honest here.
Eu moro em Porto Velho, na Amazônia, e posso afirmar, empiricamente, que as queimadas aqui em Rondônia aumenta a cada ano. De uns 4 anos pra cá, as fumaças de queimada, ficam quase o verão todo (julho, agosto, setembro) tendo um desses anos, antes da pandemia, a fumaça daqui, atravessar o Brasil todo até a parte sul do país. A AMAZÔNIA TÁ QUEIMANDO.
We definitely also need to support and uplift the voices of the indigenous people from the Amazon during this time!
Indeed!
This is exactly what we should be doing, after all, it is their home and they are the true guardians. I would hope that if someone was burning my home down that others would be there fighting my corner to put it out and stop it from happening again.
@@1980kebab www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/24/world/americas/amazon-rain-forest-fire-maps.html
Humans are Humans
We stick up for each other no matter what
#TeamHumans
Go White Knight! They need your White savior complex
Hey actual scientist here who works a lot on environmental tipping points.
You can't say there are always a lot of tipping points on the road to the destruction of a particularly environmental feature.
The only thing we can say is that as far as we know there are often many phase shifts on the road towards such a disaster. Environmental processes are just so infinitely complex that actually there could be orders of magnitude of cyclical processes that lead to tipping points or, for example, there could be one singular enormous shortcut where a system undergoes a giant equilibrium shift and changes phase.
Refer to Scheffer's work I believe early into the 2000s where he categorized such tipping points. He uses the example of biogechemical cycling in reservoirs (in a related region to my own work). One perturbation in any major or even minor pathway in the entire catchment-reservoir mega-system and the path towards phase shift can become irreversable.
So yes you can say often we see many differing tipping points on the way to a total loss or shift on environment. But often the end point in already inevitable and the damage is done.
Consider the visual demonstration of a ball rolling on a 1D surface that undulates varyingly. If the ball is pushed over a lip (tipping point) the momentum can carry it over many further lips until it settles in a different local minima. The only way to stop the ball once it is rolling is direct intervention, which is not always possible in environmental systems.
The only real hope is if science and technology can innovate significantly faster than the damage is being done.
Anthony Trupiano I got u guys don’t worry.
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@@Technomancr Not really; that's deflecting responsibility. The only *real* hope is for people to do something. Science can say all it wants; doesn't matter. The president is still burning the Amazon. Technology is expensive and will only succeed if it's profitable.
The only hope is for people to do something. And considering where we are, that hope is dead. I want to believe it's not, but it is.
I’ve learned about the amazon rainforest in elementary school. I never EVER thought that the end of it might happen in my life span. So sad.
And sadly, the end of the Amazon can shorten your lifespan.
It isn't going to
@Cá M. Cá M. If I'm not mistaken, a very Large percentage of the Amazon Rainforest is in Brazil and the fires are in Brazil... Why are you being rude? I don't see anything wrong with the original post.
I caught onto this ‘intentional burning’ instantly, knew it from the start. Thanks for confirming it now I can use you in arguments xx
Search on Ecosia. They spend 80% of their earnings in planting trees. I found out yesterday and according to search engine, it helped them plant five trees. I hope other businesses follow their example.
Not only that but you stop getting targetted ads that pop up on instagram since they dont sell information like google
I have been using it for 2 years now .. really amazing and trasparent .. the search quality also improves over time
It's pretty great, ain't it
I heard that ad. Businesses like Ecosia really shows hope.
only 5... LMAO
Thank you, Hank. This is extremely well explained, and I honestly had no idea about any of this. Thank you for making the information accessible.
From a biological perspective, this is an unprecedented loss of biodiversity that is destroying the world’s rarest ecosystem :(
Bloody well said young man . Best comment by a long shot .
I think the rest of the world needs to step in to protect key regions like the Congo and Amazon because their governments aren't doing anything to protect regions that effect the rest of the planet.
And from a geopolitic perspective, this is a direct attack from the presumptious world leaders to a nation that's struggling to develop & improve it's people's lives. Human lives.
@@arthas640 Ok, I'll have to ask you to stop right there, way too risky to cause war
@@phdm1234 dont necessarily need to start a war over it, set up an economic agreement where we buy other goods at a higher rate and in return they stop logging. So maybe we buy Brazilian cars or Brazilian clothes or something, dont charge a tariff or buy them at above market price, and in return they have to scale back farming, ranching and logging. If they dont like the deal we raise tariffs on meat and lumber but continue to offer to buy other goods at a great deal.
Currently brazil doesnt do much to stop logging because they get money to protect the Amazon even though they're not doing their job and the world continues to buy goods such ad lumber and meat even though those goods are what are killing the amazon. Once it stops being profitable to cut down trees the logging will greatly reduce. We may even want to offer international aid in the form of sustainable harvested/farmed lumber. Weyerhauser uses a great model that allows logging in a sustainable way and the Pacific Northwest is able to preserve most forests without harming lumber exports
"Once the trees are burnt down, the animals killed, and the waters polluted for the sake of wealth, then soon the man will realize that he cannot eat money"
Evil Doers don't give a shit
Check out the song The Seed by AURORA if you haven’t. It is very good and I believe is inspired by this quote.
The next generation that are innocent are going to pay for it.
I don’t actually know what to comment but I’m going to comment because hopefully that’ll get the algorithm to recommend this to more people
Here. Have my reply to support your cause
mine too
Yes!! 💪🏻
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There are few things today more dangerous than human greed.
Humans
Human pride?
capitalism isn't an individual failure like greed...
Ben Zombie the greed of the capitalist class will destroy us. We should do something while we still have little time left
Hank, please make a video on what we can do to help! Not many people are offering solutions. For example, avoiding products with palm oil, cutting back on our meat consumption and products that contain soybean from the Amazon. When there is no political will, we as a collective can make a huge change!! Vote with your $. It isn't over.
"Limit the demand for what they produce so they won't be interested in expanding their herds."
XD most Brazilian meat doesn't come from Amazon lol. Amazon has most precious product like Gold, Diamond , Oil, rare animals and other metals. ^.^ i dont think the international companies will want to stop extracting this from Brazil lol
Meat production has nothing to do with why the Amazon is burning. The sole reason the Amazon is burning is to produce fertilizer for crop agriculture, so the best thing you can do is hold vegans accountable for their environmental destruction and not eat plants.
@@sarad6627
Most plants are grown to be fed to animals, you genius.
Most deforestation is for the animal products industry.
Drop your agenda and actually do some research.
@@Pyriphlegeton That vegan BS propaganda, you idiot.
Sarah Denison that is not propaganda. The most prominent cause of deforestation world wide is soy bean production and cattle grazing, mostly for beef (source: Michigan State University). 70-80% of soy is fed to animal livestock (source: WWF). Less than 10% is consumed as food for humans. Ironically, if you want to consume less soy and cause less deforestation, eating soy directly uses considerably less soy than eating meat, as you’re not feeding tonnes of it to animals who we then eat (David Pimentel of Cornell University). Eating soy or plants is not remotely the problem.
It's almost a month and still the fire is alive
I'm really pissed because I'm sitting in my home just reading the news unable to do anything ?????
we can't put out the fire from here, but what we can do is change our daily food choices and don't buy meat and dairy products. 👍
@@LS-zn6gk More like don't eat lamb and beef cause they emit the most amount of carbon footprints, eat veg and save the world.
@@LS-zn6gk ummmm, going vegan doesnt put the fires out🤣 And it doesnt matter because were all headed to a global extinction.
EXILED DxMxN yeah but the reason they were started in first place was to make room to graze cattle and to grow cattle feed like soy beans. Only a tiny percentage of the soy from the Amazon goes to directly into human food or to produce emissions
EXILED DxMxN That’s like not studying for finals and saying it doesn’t matter because you’re gonna fail anyway. Or personally killing a cat and saying it doesn’t matter because cats are gonna be extinct someday.
Similar stuff going in western ghats (india). Coffee/Tea plantation owners are poisoning rainforest trees to expand the plantation area.
Its India. Complain. Government take this things seriously here.
You're not wrong, but in a bigger relativistic picture . . India has done quite well in terms of decelerating deforestation, plantation drives, switching towards renewable resources, pushing policies for electric vehicles, environmental awareness etc . .
The problem is that the changes are painfully slow.
@@shishirdas9697 @shishir India's governments take the decisions you talked about because they are profitable (even that is done very inefficiently). On the other hand, when it comes to taking difficult decisions, they back out. Scientists recommended that Gir lions should breed outside their clan and should be partially relocated to expand as too much inbreeding is causing vulnerability to disease outbreaks. The government refused to do that and as a result 25 lions died of a viral outbreak. The remaining lions also are disease ridden and very weak.
They have constructed highways and railways right through wildlife sanctuaries and have exposed the tigers and elephants to high stress levels which is one of the main cause that the reproduction rates are low and even the IVFs don't work.
(and these are just a few cases)
@@AshishBihani thanks for the feedback . . I didn't know about the case of lions you mentioned . . I'll read about it.
But regarding the government decisions on environmental issues, I think as more and more people get aware of the situation, political trend will also slowly follow. Even a selfish politician will have to do something about it ,if his/her voter base cares for the environment.
My optimism might be silly, but I like to think the scientists and activists who are piling individual effort are also making a mark. Take for example the research into organic food cultivation through bacteria, or that Indian guy (I forgot his name) who invented a machine to collect plastic waste from the ocean . . And many others who need more media coverage, money and our support.
It's literally the same thing that happens here
Yes, this is short, but it's the best way to point uninformed people (such as myself) in the right direction. Thank you, Hank
For sure. Learnt more about what is actually going on and the science behind it from here, than the social media links to donate to charities and the eat less meat debate, which are the main focal points online as opposed to education on what is actually happening.
Luis Alvarez looking at how your subscribed to the President of Brazil who has clearly been proven false multiple times, yeah no I think your definition of research is different from the accepted and rational one
For all those who incorrectly conflate "soy" with "veganism":
Most soy is grown for animals.
By a huuge margin.
Pyriphlegeton The USDA states that 70% of soy is fed to livestock and Michigan State University states 98% of soy is fed to livestock
True. But still avoid it in food
So by eating animals, you would be eating more soy than just eating soy straight from the source.
@It's the fox! Why? Soy is healthy and is a good source of protein? Plus if people stopped feeding soy to farm animals by stopping production of livestock. And if we use soy for consumption instead, we would use less farmland and can save resources and environments.
@It's the fox! I’m not trying to force you to eat it, but there’s no downside when eating it. So your choice.
*sees title* hmmm yes the floor is made out of floor
*watches video* oh god
"Allegiance to ideology, instead of the truth" the downfall of mankind
@twenty øne in future times martinez That's not at all what's being disputed. It's when ideology ignores the truth. That's the point.
@twenty øne in future times martinez well then that ideology IS the truth, right now we're talking about ideologies that AREN'T the truth.
everyone with a brain: “the planet is slowly being completely destroyed and we need to do something about it”
politicians: “but it’s too much MONEY”
🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
Natasel
Some countries do pay them. They are stopping to do that tho
It would be better if the farmers actually practiced multicultured farming instead of plantations, which destroys the soil since it doesn't give time for the nutrients to regrow, and use dozens of agrochemicals that no where else uses it because it's shown to be harmful to the soil, water tables and to there own long-term production.
Natasel that’s not how this works.
Without money you can't do anything.
Thank you so much. I'm Brazilian and we need people speaking about it.
Edit: Regarding new comments in here - Yes, it's not the first time people burned our forest, but IT IS the first time the president endorsed the fires. He's only talking about it due to other coutries' pressure.
To com voce Emanuella, eu sou uma das que abomina o que ta acontecendo.
Sempre aconteceu Marina Silva ganhou até o prêmio machado de ouro. Moro em Pimenta Bueno e não é isso tudo que mídia está passando. Hipocritas
As queimadas sempre aconteceram e foram recordes nos governos fhc e lula. Mais um golpe da mídia que molda estatisticas para parecer que nunca houve tanta queimada na amazonia. Como enganou o hank dizendo que houve aumento de 88% na incidencia de queimadas comparado com o ano passado. Ignorando toda a média de anos anteriores para emplacar narrativa para moldar a opiniao publica
@@babythestars123 encontraram drogas no avião reserva da fab. Então o avião não era nem do bolsonaro e não há nada que ligue o presidente a esse crime. Procure se informar melhor.
@@misteremi666 Gado, com tanta merda que seu presidente expele pela a boca e a coisa atingindo essa proporção voce ainda tem a coragem de vir falar que é golpe da mídia que é o unico discurso que o seu presidente usa.
I would like to thank for this informative video. Tons of videos and comments here in Brazil and elsewhere in the world similarly talk quite the same thing but your video has added a new perspective : we need one another 'cause everything's intertwined and no one seems to care if a forest is not productive. Thanks again.
Thanks for raising awareness about this. As a brazilian I actually couldn't feel more ashamed about what is being done there. And in fact the fires were so bad that sao paulo, a city thousands of kilometers to the south suffered from a phenomenon in which the day became night because of the ashes of those fires and a storm coming together. It was just ridiculous. Anyway, thank you again and let's hope our president is convinced by science to do something
What are state governments for in federations, if not to protect local resources! Why can't state government in Brazil stop federal actions? I don't believe that all Brazilian governors are like him.
@Jubsy Saddinger do you really think i'm that stupid? I said that realizing it'd be a miracle, and what's wrong with that? I don't believe it will ever happen, what's the harm in hoping for a good conclusion? It's not like a believe it
@@andrefiliks "what's the harm in hoping for a good conclusion?"
Because it's gigantic waste of time. Actions change the course of history, not hope. Spread awareness, try to reach groups that does not think the same as you. Explain. You have limited resources but it's still better than doing nothing and waiting for "hope" never to arrive. There is a reason why your nation choosed this government and understing why, is the only option in order to try and reverse it.
@@sion8 here in brazil, federal government overrules states decisions, specially when it comes to something as big as the amazon. it's not like the us where states are independent for the most part because, in theory, the federal government should have more resources to make better decisions. not the case right now, as you can tell.
@@juliagusmao2659
Well I can't tell you what to do with your country, but I suggest that all Brazilians reevaluate the federal-state relationship over there, because this cannot go on like this. If you feel different, let's agree to disagree and that's that.
Keeping up with world news when the American political news cycle is so dominant in our major media is exhausting.
Imagine how life is being for us, South Americans. Complete chaos. Depression and anxiety epidemics.
Don't focus on American Politics, then. Problem solved.
@@RNG-999 When your country's politicians and news outlets are obsessed with sensationalism and generating "political scandals" in order to let the more important things fly under the radar, finding a news outlet in your language that isn't saturated with half-truths, editorials, clickbait and outrage becomes really hard.
@@SleepyFen Look harder. It's not hard. Don't tell me it's hard. It's only hard if you put in zero effort.
@@SleepyFen what language are you talking about? There's no way you can't find something in English, a language that probably most news around the world are translated to.
Hank, I'm a brazilian sociologist. The situation in Brazil is becoming very drastic very fast. And the relation between knowledge and political projects is now a awful one. Federal Universities (the major producers of research in the country) are been heavly attacked and portrayed as a brainwashing space for the left to organize itself around "false" themes like global warming or gender equality. Bilions were taken from the education funds and were used to construct lobby for austerity politics. My own university may stop its activities this month.
He often inidcate the use of statistics on his own social media decide and justify his decisions.
A gigantic study published by the Fiocruz Institute about the false alegations of a drug epidemic in the country was simply ignored. Instead, a moralistic view of the phenomena conducts the directions for public action on the theme.
Bolsonaro often lies about the dictatorship period in Brazil, prasing torture responsibles and saying that this were the good old times to wich he intends to bring back.
We really don't know what to do. A Lot of protests and demonstrations have been organized, but they seem to have no effect at all.
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Sounds like Obama and the Libs spend time in Brazil!!
@@oxcarthabu And what is this supposed to mean?
@@oxcarthabu
What?
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Thank you for bringing this to the world's attention.... it is still going to be a problem, only if we purposely make it a problem...
Our Planet is on fire, she weeps, she sorrows, she is burning alive. News has been out for a while about Bolsonaro's Destruction,
I am still spreading the news about him, we all need to keep spreading the news about him, about our beautiful life source. #prayforamazonia
#motherearth #gaia #conciousness
"We need to call a lie a lie, no matter who says it" PREACH
Dang why did I have to be born in the beginning of the end:(
I know right.
You are born during one of the most critical and important transition in the entire history of mankind, at least that's solethi g we can appreciate. Now we gotta work hard and help this world!
The thing is : what we do today will be remembered forever by humans of the future.
does ww1 or ww2 sound like a better option? u just missed it by 50ish years
Wade Fisher man i feel u btw we have the same last name lol
So that you could help save it.
Brazil wants money, gonna be hard to use that money without oxygen
The planet has more than enough oxygen. I really wish that wasn't mentioned because it's a shock stat that isn't relevant to the situation.
@@Nightenstaff
Did you even understand what he said? He's trying to say that Brazil cares more about money than life itself and also it is relevant
@@_ForestMan Yeah, and so are most countries.
@@Nightenstaff So? Lead by example, just because others are doing poorly doesn't give you an excuse to do worse.
@@Nightenstaff
That doesn't make it a good thing to do
Well said. I'm an American-Brazilian, born here in the US. It breaks my heart to see this fire destroying the land of my ancestors..
Came for the fire, stayed for the breakdown of nationalistic ideology.
couldn't have said it any better haha
comrade Hank! XD
One man is making decisions to destroy the rainforest because of greed. Thats not nationalism, thats corruption
I feel embarrassed to be from Brazil.
@@firstnamett4656 the human brain can rationalise a veil for hateful rhetoric TO SURPRISING EXTENTS.
case study our personal B. Shapiro here.
There was actually an add in the Brazilian newspaper asking farmers to start fires this year to create more productive land.
This is true. I think it was announced as "dia do fogo".
@@takotakotakotakotako could you translate please?
@@marysmith5003 it means literally "fire day". Farmers were illegally hiring people to set the forest on fire through said ad.
We really need evidence for this.
@@simonrudduck8726 Here's some evidence: translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww1.folha.uol.com.br%2Fambiente%2F2019%2F08%2Fem-dia-do-fogo-sul-do-pa-registra-disparo-no-numero-de-queimadas.shtml
Thank you for this video.
We Brazilians are very concerned with this.
Please forget the hateful comments. Is not most of the brazilians opinion 🙏
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I am very glad to see that many Brazilians do care about this...but didn't 55% of the people who voted in the 2018 elections with a 79% turnout vote for Bolsonaro? Who made clear while campaigning that the Rainforest wasn't being effectively used for the good of the Brazilian people and that burning/logging should continue?
That kind of makes it seem like it is the majority of the Brazillians opinion, or at least that most people care about it so little that it wasn't a dealbreaker in voting for Bolsonaro.
@@RaidsEpicly that's the issue: most people didn't find the awful things he said to be dealbreakers. but re: the turnout: voting is mandatory, it's just that you can vote for no one, so there were a lot of blanks, therefore: political apathy added strenght to the far-right movement as well.
@@RaidsEpicly most of the votes were not for him.
@@lorenabpv Yes.
And don't forget the fake news.
They did here the same that we saw on UK and US.
"Nerdfighters Brasil", thank you very much for the portuguese translation. You're doing important work, keep it up.
It's actually scary to be Brazilian and live here these days. I'm so glad there's someone that can talk about this is a way I don't know how to, and with such huge reach. Thank you, Hank! Sometimes we don't really know what to do but it feels less sucky to know people understand and actually see what's going on here.
Hello Victoria, I'm sorry I cannot recall the ecological activist's name, but he was murdered in his shower.
The earth will be in continual upheaval until Jesus comes back, it's sad to say. As for the time being, satan is the god of this world. !_!
cute
@@antoniovieira8531 mesmo cara
You should go protest people. Here in Greece we protested just to insure the survival of a national bear species. If I were Brazilian I would feel so angry that my national treasure is being compromised for money.
Research0digo there ain’t no Jesus coming down to help us. It’s just us humans bud, and if we don’t fight for our survival and welfare, no one will.
The soil of the Amazon rainforest is not rich in nutrients, what is being destroyed will not grow back.
They wont let it even if it could grow back because money
It would take thousands of years for the rainforest to grow back, if it ever does, even if we try to grow it back
Three words: Mount Saint Helens.
@@doodiehutchison4463 Washington state and the Amazon don't have much in common once you get past the obvious similarities of being wet and woody. The recovery after Mt. Saint Helens isn't a useful comparison.
Doodie Hutchison
Entirely different environments and ecosystems. One word for you: Sahara.
I love that you made this
So just a but more info
The Amazon spreads across various South American countries including mine (Guyana)
There are various countries who pay or are patrons to our countries to protect the rainforests we are blessed with.
Because of what the Brazilian government is doing some patron countries did not renew their patronage.
We know these fires are intentional because the indigenous people ( like the American indians) went to count to protect their home rge rainforests and won against the government of Brazil who want the land to produce agriculture solely to make money, as soon as the indigenous people won, these fires escalated.
The Amazon needs help
The forests are all of ours
I've never written a comment this long
But this is so close to home and it breaks my heart really badly to see the loss of our Amazonia it's flora, fauna and reserves.
Thank you for this video
Bruning amazon, we won't be able to chop down the trees 😢😢😭😭😭😖😖😡😡😰😰😰👎👎👎👌👌👌👌👌
Annmarie Gomes tell us what to do please. Are Brazilian civilians doing something about it?
@@TheDature No one actually cares
[citation needed]
@@liojc "Your mom's quote"
Wow! What a great job of highlighting the different issues affecting this deforestation problem. Thank you for actually covering this issue instead of spatting soundbytes. Our "news" outlets aren't covering the issue. Shocking, I know.
Maybe we should take the headlines out of the passive voice and say, "Greedy people are burning the Amazon."
Lautenbug but then they are only doing what many other countries have done in the past, the USA and much of Europe among them. It’s not simply greed. We need to help countries like Brazil to progress economically without destroying their natural resources. ‘Look at what these awful people are doing’ is hypocritical and does help the situation.
Or greedy people in the US and Europe have set the precedent of deforestation and expect the rest of the world to do the opposite.
Yes, Hank makes that point in the videos too. But as a human race, we know better than we did 200 years ago. I get it that people are just trying to make a better life. I'm from a third world country myself. But they are also aware of the larger ramifications of their actions, and are doing it anyway, just because they can now.
What is more upsetting is that here in Latin America we get headlines such as "The mysterious reason Sao Paolo went dark at 3pm" as if we didn't know its because of the fire. The deliberate misinformation happening everywhere is terrifying
People who eat meat and animal products are paying greedy people to destroy the Amazon. That's more accurate. Change your habits, change the world! Go vegan
Hey, have you'll heard about another search engine know as "ecosia".. their way of working is kinda really interesting. They plant 1 tree for 45 searches. I think everyone must definitely atlest try or reaserch about it.
Can we get "The problem I have with reality, there's just too much of it" merch? Because that's a mood
The world might be ending.. is anyone else afraid to have children ? 😣
I'm not having any. Might adopt tho
nope, having three
Just thinking this now? we have known all this for decades
^
What difference does it make if the world is ending lo
Thank you for this passionate and well-researched video. You're right to point out how all of this is interconnected and urgent.
You did an excellent job of covering many of the issues. I come from Zambia and have frequently seen the conflict between conservation and the economic benefits of not conserving and it is often a difficult situation, and Europeans (who conserved virtually nothing in their own countries) coming to tell us to conserve and starve is not always welcome. There usually are solutions that include conservation and economic benefit but they require work and a proper dialog with the local people - who usually do want to conserve but also want economic advancement. In Africa burning the bush each year is standard practice for much of Africa but it is not good for the soil and there are better practices, but that takes educating people on the benefits of not burning and different farming practices.
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to change. It's not.."
Fighting emotions and wishful thinking with facts and arguments will not work!
The African Hummingbird story - read it and on Oshun ❤💚
ua-cam.com/video/OU_QkhxfZjs/v-deo.html
The worst part is that the only people who can do something about it aren’t. What are we supposed to do? Tariff, tax, sanction, invade Brazil? I’m being extreme but to be honest those are the only options that other nations have.
We go to the Amazon, and we burn the cows. We burn every farmer's cows to show them how painful it is to an animal when it loses what it loves, its home.
@@williamhorner6147nobody needs you here
The other countries are NOT interested in helping us, they are interested in taking our natural resources. I don't support Bolsonaro at all but he is trying to fight the fires without selling the Amazon to you by internationalizing it. Amazon IS NOT the lung of the world, is the oceans. The most part of the oxygen that Amazon produces is consumed by itself. The forest is important because of fauna and flora, but the rest of the world's don't care about us and just want to make money!
@@isabellamacedo6764 Red pilled
Bolsanaro: **Lets people cut trees and burn down the forest**
Also Bolsanaro: No one's cutting trees and burning the forest!
Rex Longfellow that interesting reality of how he could say something like that with a net positive outcome for him, is that everyone has a different perspective dictated by ones morals and what they value..
To anyone with a good enough understanding of what really is climate change, how vital the Amazon rainforest is to the worlds atmosphere, and how deforestation in no really could not have any effect on the regional and global climate, what he says seems ridiculous..
making that statement seem, hypocritical
To Bolsanaro and anyone with a strong enough nationalist view on the world, “no one is cutting and burning trees” is the reason for why people should cut and burn tress in order to put the economic interests first..
making that statement seem, reasonable..
Common political rhetoric.
Sometimes I always wondered if people made a right choice electing a president cuz Rolsonaro did is completely retartded
Do you have any proof that he let people burn down the florest? Please show me
ZIG_CAVALO he fired the space and research institute witch got people mad that’s my theory
“Little did they know, only after it was destroyed did they realize that the Amazon was a gift 🎁🌳🥀”
They'll never realise it, friend.
Like Trump said The Amazon is Fake. Bitches. Nothing gonna happen. Brazill just want to get paid for that gift. Bitches.
Yeah friend... Your land is a gift two... Middle east is not your gift, but you think it is. Study more... They lie at your face 24/7...
@@YorHighness true the Amazon is so fake that's why all the video evidence of it existing all the species we've ever found there and all the scientific discoveries that have been made there are all false... you sound like a fucking clown
@@silvergarcia9897 I think he's joking but there's a lot of stupid people on this Earth so maybe not.
I'm scared, I'm legit scared for the future. How can this happen and how can some people not see how wrong it is?
Money
@@marieelisa1 indeed that is correct
@@marieelisa1 "for the live of money is the rot of all evil."
We can clearly see that happening today
battousai9795
It’s because we all put different values on different things. What u think is precious may not be so important to another, or just not necessarily at that same time. Sometimes it’s because their needs and wants are different than urs. Sometimes certain group of people are being actively deceived by others like government, corporations/businesses, or groups/individuals that have some personal interest in the matter. Sometimes it’s because they’re ignorant, un/undereducated, or lacking information. Other times it’s because their value/belief system is just different than urs.
Mix all these different points and u have the diversity in human beings and their deeds. Then expand all that crazy good/bad madness over a span of time.
It’s okay. It also sucks at times. It is what it is. Only thing we can do is actively participate in matters, be educated, and be brave. For ourselves and the next generation.
Because they'll be dead by the time the chickens come home and won't have to deal with the consequences.
You have every goddamned right to tell Brazil what they should do with their rainforests and so does every human on this planet. We live in an age were the actions of one bring consequences for everyone and the Amazon is an incredibly important ecosystem for everyone on Earth. We all have the right to say what should happen, because it influences all of us.
That's what many people don't understand
Losing the Amazon to nationalism is a horrible thing.
@Johnny Doeboy why are you saying white people look at fricking China or africa
@@rusting_chard he means european colonialism and imperialism. what is happening in africa and asia is a post effect of colonialism and late stage capitalism
@@fkatwigsisthequeenofenglan4748 If it has direct connection to colonialism is debatable. Either way, this period is long gone, there are many post-colonial countries that took the right path after, so using this argument is just simply invalid and nothing more, than a mere excuse. No, the devastation of ecosystems does not resolve only to Brazil, China or India but also US and Russia. This is not a "colonialism" or "capitalism", this is simply GREED. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@rusting_chard Africa is on a mission to plant 1 billion trees whilst White people are building more cattle ranches. What about Africa? ua-cam.com/video/ZuZuqWVxD9o/v-deo.html
Given that beef production in the Amazon is driven by international markets rather than domestic consumption, it doesn't really seem like "nationalism" is the primary culprit here.
There’s the saying, I’m not sure by who but:
“Only once the last tree has fallen,
the last fish has been caught, and the last river has been poisoned, will we realize that we cannot eat money.”
I sincerely hope it is wrong.
How would it be wrong?
Apparently it's a Native American proverb that has been quoted by people throughout the decades. (couldn't really find any more information with my limited search ability)
@@itsmenelson3010 They hope that it won't come to that for us to realize what's truly important. But with how innately selfish humans are, who really knows....
Have you not had money cake? Like wtf...
I believe it is by Chief Seattle.
This is absolutely terrifying. I know despair isn't helpful, but I'm having a hard time not being paralysed by it just now.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/24/world/americas/amazon-rain-forest-fire-maps.html
You need to get out of the net and into action. Don't think about what to do you will never ever get any satisfying results only more despair.
I've been barely surviving a massive depression for 15 years and from all that experience I can tell you the strategy that kept my alive and brought me to happiness despite all the shit that is still happening.
Don't think! Move and keep moving! Find community and physical activity and never avoid the hard work necessary to maintain both. We will not find salvation in our heads and there is little we can do. So let's make the little we can do count. Maybe it will help humanity, maybe it doesn't. But at least it will help you and the is mire worth than just sitting uselessly around and panicking.
It will get worse, Panik and depression will come but that's fine that's all part of life, breathe and keep moving, keep it simple. Good luck!
@@sonkeschmidt2027 look at the link
Despair is helpful. But only if you make sure it's felt by the people in power.
@@lavamatstudios because that will help to make them use their power responsible? Is the opposite, they will use it more selfish and destructive, that is not going to help. That is an egoistic attempt to turn the own bad feelings down by making "them" feel worse. And then you are the same as those in power and then you continue the same circle that brought us here in the first place.
Bolsonaro is burning the rainforest :
Ecological organizations : **ANGERY**
Putin is burning Russian Taiga :
Ecological organizations : "I don't even know who you are"
And a UA-camr makes a non sequitur in the comments section. Good job, I guess.
@@ksanqkipsz
Hey, they burning the Russian Taiga, it's bad thing.