User submission 21.2K 129.9K Social IssuesAug 21, 2019 The Amazon Forest Has Been Burning For Weeks And NASA Shares Photos From Space Andželika Community member Open list comments 84 Vote arrow up Vote arrow down 206 Open list comments 84 Checkmark Link copied! Share icon Share Checkmark Link copied! Share icon Share Modal close ADVERTISEMENT On Monday afternoon, the whole city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, went completely dark – as it turns out, the city was buried in smoke by the strong winds coming from the Amazon rainforest fires burning nearly 1,700 miles away. According to Reuters, Brazil’s space research center INPE has detected almost 72,843 wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest. Share icon(This photo was taken during Amazon fires in 1989)The research center states that their satellite data showed an 83% increase in the same period in 2018, showing that this year Amazon has suffered a record number of forest fires.Share iconImage credits: shannongsimsThe citizens of Sao Paulo were shocked when they witnessed a daytime blackout, one Twitter user said: “Imagine how much has to be burning to create that much smoke”.Share icon Image credits: shannongsims Share iconImage credits: shannongsimsShare iconImage credits: shannongsimsThe blackout lasted around an hour and came from the fires burning in the states of Amazonas and Rondonia. Together with the veil of smoke the levels of CO2 spiked greatly in the surrounding areas.Share iconImage credits: Leandro Matozo/GloboNewsShare iconImage credits: bilocabrADVERTISEMENTShare iconImage credits: sevenstarsARMYBut they weren’t the only ones who noticed an increased fire activity. NASA released photos taken from space which show smoke surrounding the Amazon rainforest.ADVERTISEMENTShare iconImage credits: leandromotaShare iconImage credits: NASAEven though the Amazon has been relatively fire-resistant due to its natural moisture and humidity, wildfires have increased during the last couple of decades and the cause is attributed to a combination of drought and human activity.Share iconImage credits: NASAExperts associate this year’s increase with Jair Bolsonaro who took office as president in January and vowed to develop the Amazon region for farming and mining, ignoring the increased deforestation.Share iconImage credits: NASAShare iconThis map shows current CO concentration level in South America.ADVERTISEMENTHere’s how people reactedShare iconImage source: StaceyW32933359Share iconImage source: eunbugsShare iconImage source: doug34784Share iconImage source: HighEndMeShare iconImage source: RonnyRotten5150Share iconImage source: YEBINXSADVERTISEMENT Ic_puzzle Games View all games Anyone can write on Bored Panda. 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Vote comment up 52 52points Vote comment down reply K Miller K Miller Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report I agree! It's so discouraging! Things like this make me feel helpless, like how is one person supposed to help make a difference? Vote comment up 17 17points Vote comment down reply Load More Replies... Kiwi Canuck Kiwi Canuck Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report I once read a story about a young girl walking on a beach that had millions of starfish washed up. She was picking up one at a time and throwing them back into the ocean while others watched on in amusement. Finally a man asked why she was bothering, she could never make a difference. She picked up another, threw it into the ocean and said "I made a difference for that one". He began to help, and one by one, everyone else started to pitch in and eventually there were no starfish left. I agree it's discouraging with the shape our world is in at the moment, but it only takes ONE person to lead the change. Vote comment up 16 16points Vote comment down reply Iris Elmér Iris Elmér Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Follow the movement and go on strike on Fridays Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report But you can easily make a difference, it will just require you to make changes you’re unwilling to make. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply sky blue sky blue Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Beef production is the reason for these fires (and animal agriculture itself is the leading cause for the destruction of our planet), but whenever I say that out loud, the same people who cry for our planet become hostile against me. Here in Bored Panda I can see that by the amount of downvotes my comments get. So my question is, what do y'all want to do about this situation? What are you ready to do? Anything? Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Melissa Melissa Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Acting like you know the reason for something that scientists can't pinpoint appears to be pretty arrogant and that is likely why people are downvoting. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report They knock down more than what is burning every year so you can eat burgers and cry self righteously. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply AlphaPuck AlphaPuck Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Unless a human started the fire... then its nature doing its thing. You really think no fires existed before humans? Vote comment up -9 -9points Vote comment down reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report your sheer willful ignorance is seriously alarming. Do you not realize that huge tracts have been deforested, then filled with elephant grass so it can't even recover? Do you realize that species and indigenous populations have lived harmoniously for millennia until the need to feed cattle and grow things like soy preempted it? Of course fires were natural. Jesus H F*****g Christ. The ignorance is astounding. Vote comment up 7 7points Vote comment down reply Нико Нико Нико Нико Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report ...Big forest fires are something normal. I agree that human-caused fires are not good but everytime I read about a forest fire and there are people that act like the end of the world. Not only they are normal but they are needed. Think about it a bit. When plants live they use the nutrients of the soil, big old trees make thick shade and prevent new trees and plants from growing under them etc. Big forest fires are natural ways of making the soil rich of nutrients again and lets new plants grow and this is the natural way of making live even more abundant, new species can grow that are more adapt to the environment if it has changed with the passage of years (Which again is a normal thing. In the nature nothing is constant, ages come and go, the climate changes the continents keep moving and reforming)...Fires can start with or without humans (summer heat, lightnings), species that can not adapt perish (in the live of this planet millions did so). Vote comment up -10 -10points Vote comment down reply N G N G Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report These aren't natural forest fires. These are people deliberately burning the Rainforests so they can farm cattle and mine for rare minerals. We need the natural diversity and carbon dioxide absorption that they offer. Vote comment up 13 13points Vote comment down reply Maria Rohlen Maria Rohlen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report There's nothing normal when a RAINforest is burning! There's nothing normal when Sibiria is burning, there's nothing normal when Europe is burning, there's nothing normal with temperatures so high flying animals drop dead from the sky! Vote comment up 11 11points Vote comment down reply Alan Smith Alan Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report you realise this is a natural phenomonon that happens once every couple of hundred years, right? its a natural burning. the ecosystem cleaning itself. Vote comment up -14 -14points Vote comment down reply Xandra Xandra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report I realize the fires could be natural, my reaction was more to the fact the president "vowed" to mine and farm the Amazon Vote comment up 7 7points Vote comment down reply TheDivineMs.M TheDivineMs.M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report To read that their president vowed to use the amazon for farming and mining sickens and disappoints me. I live no where near the Amazon and even I know how important it is to our planet. The animals... the ecosystem.... all being destroyed. Vote comment up 42 42points Vote comment down reply rakuninaru rakuninaru Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Coming back to this post, Bolivia has already had more than 2 million hectares burnt thanks to president Evo Morales who gave away land to his people in the forest. These people want that land so they can cultivate more coca and they are the ones who keep on burning it despite de volunteers effort to fight against the fire. Evo Morales refuses to ask for international help and to declare a national emergency. Their "colonos" even asked for more land. It's heartbreaking to see all the wild fauna burnt. Heartbreaking. Impotence agains this government is the least we can say Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Why are they farming and mining? What is being farmed and mined? Figure that out and stop buying it. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply Maia Choat Maia Choat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Profit, the amazon doesn't make money for Brazil so why not use it for something useful. This outdated point of view is stupid and is gonna destroy our world Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Marnie Marnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report @Mewton's Third Paw: Yep, the 100 people who decide to do that, do the research, and stick with it is really going to make ALL the difference. Yep. Vote comment up -3 -3points Vote comment down reply ChiveChilly ChiveChilly Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report This is so sad and honestly, scary Vote comment up 18 18points Vote comment down reply Paul Chang Paul Chang Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Prime example of mankind’s greed and disregard for home Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Xandra Xandra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Sometimes I feel like crying when I see what we're doing to our planet, and I'm kind of glad I don't have kids so they can live through what will follow... Vote comment up 52 52points Vote comment down reply K Miller K Miller Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report I agree! It's so discouraging! Things like this make me feel helpless, like how is one person supposed to help make a difference? Vote comment up 17 17points Vote comment down reply Load More Replies... Kiwi Canuck Kiwi Canuck Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report I once read a story about a young girl walking on a beach that had millions of starfish washed up. She was picking up one at a time and throwing them back into the ocean while others watched on in amusement. Finally a man asked why she was bothering, she could never make a difference. She picked up another, threw it into the ocean and said "I made a difference for that one". He began to help, and one by one, everyone else started to pitch in and eventually there were no starfish left. I agree it's discouraging with the shape our world is in at the moment, but it only takes ONE person to lead the change. Vote comment up 16 16points Vote comment down reply Iris Elmér Iris Elmér Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Follow the movement and go on strike on Fridays Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report But you can easily make a difference, it will just require you to make changes you’re unwilling to make. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply sky blue sky blue Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Beef production is the reason for these fires (and animal agriculture itself is the leading cause for the destruction of our planet), but whenever I say that out loud, the same people who cry for our planet become hostile against me. Here in Bored Panda I can see that by the amount of downvotes my comments get. So my question is, what do y'all want to do about this situation? What are you ready to do? Anything? Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Melissa Melissa Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Acting like you know the reason for something that scientists can't pinpoint appears to be pretty arrogant and that is likely why people are downvoting. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report They knock down more than what is burning every year so you can eat burgers and cry self righteously. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply AlphaPuck AlphaPuck Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Unless a human started the fire... then its nature doing its thing. You really think no fires existed before humans? Vote comment up -9 -9points Vote comment down reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report your sheer willful ignorance is seriously alarming. Do you not realize that huge tracts have been deforested, then filled with elephant grass so it can't even recover? Do you realize that species and indigenous populations have lived harmoniously for millennia until the need to feed cattle and grow things like soy preempted it? Of course fires were natural. Jesus H F*****g Christ. The ignorance is astounding. Vote comment up 7 7points Vote comment down reply Нико Нико Нико Нико Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report ...Big forest fires are something normal. I agree that human-caused fires are not good but everytime I read about a forest fire and there are people that act like the end of the world. Not only they are normal but they are needed. Think about it a bit. When plants live they use the nutrients of the soil, big old trees make thick shade and prevent new trees and plants from growing under them etc. Big forest fires are natural ways of making the soil rich of nutrients again and lets new plants grow and this is the natural way of making live even more abundant, new species can grow that are more adapt to the environment if it has changed with the passage of years (Which again is a normal thing. In the nature nothing is constant, ages come and go, the climate changes the continents keep moving and reforming)...Fires can start with or without humans (summer heat, lightnings), species that can not adapt perish (in the live of this planet millions did so). Vote comment up -10 -10points Vote comment down reply N G N G Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report These aren't natural forest fires. These are people deliberately burning the Rainforests so they can farm cattle and mine for rare minerals. We need the natural diversity and carbon dioxide absorption that they offer. Vote comment up 13 13points Vote comment down reply Maria Rohlen Maria Rohlen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report There's nothing normal when a RAINforest is burning! There's nothing normal when Sibiria is burning, there's nothing normal when Europe is burning, there's nothing normal with temperatures so high flying animals drop dead from the sky! Vote comment up 11 11points Vote comment down reply Alan Smith Alan Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report you realise this is a natural phenomonon that happens once every couple of hundred years, right? its a natural burning. the ecosystem cleaning itself. Vote comment up -14 -14points Vote comment down reply Xandra Xandra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report I realize the fires could be natural, my reaction was more to the fact the president "vowed" to mine and farm the Amazon Vote comment up 7 7points Vote comment down reply TheDivineMs.M TheDivineMs.M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report To read that their president vowed to use the amazon for farming and mining sickens and disappoints me. I live no where near the Amazon and even I know how important it is to our planet. The animals... the ecosystem.... all being destroyed. Vote comment up 42 42points Vote comment down reply rakuninaru rakuninaru Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Coming back to this post, Bolivia has already had more than 2 million hectares burnt thanks to president Evo Morales who gave away land to his people in the forest. These people want that land so they can cultivate more coca and they are the ones who keep on burning it despite de volunteers effort to fight against the fire. Evo Morales refuses to ask for international help and to declare a national emergency. Their "colonos" even asked for more land. It's heartbreaking to see all the wild fauna burnt. Heartbreaking. Impotence agains this government is the least we can say Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Why are they farming and mining? What is being farmed and mined? Figure that out and stop buying it. Vote comment up 0 0points Vote comment down reply Maia Choat Maia Choat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Profit, the amazon doesn't make money for Brazil so why not use it for something useful. This outdated point of view is stupid and is gonna destroy our world Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Marnie Marnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report @Mewton's Third Paw: Yep, the 100 people who decide to do that, do the research, and stick with it is really going to make ALL the difference. Yep. Vote comment up -3 -3points Vote comment down reply ChiveChilly ChiveChilly Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report This is so sad and honestly, scary Vote comment up 18 18points Vote comment down reply Paul Chang Paul Chang Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 Round attention Svg Vector Icons : http://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon Report Prime example of mankind’s greed and disregard for home Vote comment up 1 1point Vote comment down reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Back to Homepage More about Social Issues Homepage Trending Social Issues Arrow point to left Homepage Next in Social Issues Arrow point to right Related on Bored Panda
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