Is unprecedented drought pushing the Amazon to the brink? | BBC News 

The Point of no Return is started! Ithink so!

Well, pretty soon, all they will be able to harvest is dirt.

Same here in California, sky also scarred soil burnt, constant heat dome.

Maybe more driven by poverty than ignorance?

@@petersibbald5444 more greed and tradition I think, the once owning land are not poor or in need. The garbage collection is free where I live ,but people prefer to burn their trash in their gardens even thou the whole village is in a haze.

Or maybe even a drought. At least that's what I heard😂

Since when do men listen to reason?

@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-Night I think part of it though is we have had so many professional alarmists using climate change as a tool to make money (think Al Gore) or hypocrits lecturing us all (think Harry) or just ridiculous extremists (Thunberg). These types really undermine what is otherwise a very serious message.

I study the Earth climate system, that is not the total reason why the Amazon is hotter in the last 1 year and five months. The heat is increasing world wide at a faster pace.

Greed is killing the planet.. who would have thought basing an entire economic system on one of the seven deadly sins would lead to this?!

Meat is killing the amazon

no,no,no, porn is

the Greed is killing the Sloth

Are you familiar with FMNR and holistic planned grazing Management?

Eat more meat

@@Mental707 you're clearly mental... The reason they're deforesting the Amazon is to provide more pasture land for cattle and fields for soy, to feed cattle... Excessive meat consumption is a huge part of the problem.

@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 yes, we have FMNR initiatives in Ghana, but I guess most farmers don't know much about it and most don't care. Most of them will use slash and burn and use herbicides until the day that they die. They are very stubborn and the government isn't very helpful either. As for grazing management, we have problems with cattle herders from other countries crossing the border with their herds, to escape the desertification of the Sahel. A desertification they helped cause in the first place. Some of them are violent and they don't integrate well in the local communities. Their herds trample people's fields and the herders set vast swathes of land, including forests and farms, on fire, to generate new grasslands for their cows. The situation is a bit hopeless.

@@sundiataq sarcasm my friend

Was this Bolsonaro ?

@@sayno2lolzisback Not just him, most of our presidents, even Lula.

@@sayno2lolzisback Several decades ago Brazil started to use vegetal oil and alcohol to power cars. They burn less petroleum, save the dollars used to pay for it and get a better international trade balance. But the price is using much more land than needed for farm food and get wood. Land they get from the Amazon forest.

@@caniconcananas7687 Nice Explanation! This is exactly what is happening, the big farmers are burning the forest to increase the size of their farms, and this is causing catastrophic consequences, such as rising temperatures, drought, extinction of multiple species thanks to the burning of their habitats and destruction of resources.

@@user-lr4nr6es2d Well, they will not be able to spend their money on some things. For example, oysters. Because oysters are dying from 40 % to 60 % of the population, depending on the species. The sea water is hotter than they can bear and die by millions. The water at some points of the European Atlantic coast has been above 20 ºC.

@omery.8342 Can't imagine why they would do such a thing. Maybe survival? (sarcasm alert)

How about greed or carelessness instead?

​@@richardh8082so our ways of survival is out of order. Everyone out for himself, grab grab grab and don't bother about the effects.

Everyone out for himself and family. A better life for his children. This will never change, so stop spouting rubbish.

The Human or the Older and the Young Genarations and all People likes to Abuses the Psychology. That with the dry makes on one Line a Link to more Problems Visible and on other way a Link to this Problem with the Logic.

Yeah, 🍔7-Double cheeseburgers, 🍟5-sides of fries, and 🥤5-cokes. Hey man, I heard about this video. Let's watch it. [🤓You know the loss of the rainforest is fake news right?]

there was NO amazon forest before the Spanish invaded anyway, the entire country was agricultural fields, feeding the world's largest population of over 500 million south Americans,

@@spudspuddy The Amazon rainforest has been in existence for at least 55 million years. It became widespread and assumed its current form around 10 million years ago.

@@ZeroGravity60 Why are you so hellbent on exposing your lack of intellect to the world?

Between minutes 04:36 - 04:42 we heard this false information from this BBC News ” the Amazon saw more fires in the past year (2022) in its primary or untouched Forest”. This article is supposedly scientific and merely political. It is an example of the gross use of climate as a political strategy. Its objective is to blame Bolsonaro (2022) for the destruction of the Amazon and not Lula (the left) that began to govern in January 2023 and which should defend it. The indoctrination is so aberrant that it goes against logic: if 2023 is a year of drought in the Amazon, then there should be more fires this year and not in 2022. In short, another example of human madness.

No Maybe here, stop period. A helping hand is needed to feed and educate all the rural agricultural based economy/ people on earth whether 1st, 2nd or 3rd world denizens we are all affected and all take our breathe from the same atmosphere. Feed those people who simply reason that creating more farmland will produce more food, but without water is not the answer. Dead or dying trees means more lumber prospects for those harvesting trees whether legally or illegally this narrow minded perspective could be seen as a economic boom for the few harvesting and for the consumer with reduced market price based on such abundance.But the planet suffers, the animals and humans suffer. North America grows massive amounts of crops just for producing ethanol as a renewable fuel substitute/ additive as well as food for livestock.The ethanol is not needed at all and could be created/grown in- house independantly on a much smaller scale to self supply the farm equipments needs, other than that ethanol is just a huge mistake that's been over invested into and perpetrated into a touting factor that the country is now energy independant or free from the chains of energy dependency.Yet we are totally dependent on our resource finite planet for everything we have or use, not just a nation that produces energy.2 or 3 billion people living in poverty are already conservationists by naturally dictated lifestyle another 2 billion are striving to upgrade & become 2nd world consumers are preoccupied with dreaming of a middle class life while the other 2 billion middle and upper class people just consume at an insane rate in a life of convenience, never giving conservation a second thought, as the trashman always comes on tuesday to take all their weekly waste matter away to the landfill. 7% of plastics created are actually recycled. Its a very complex dilemma that we as a dominant species face.Pollution and War seem to go hand in hand in our world of greed and acute intellectual denial of truth.

The Amazon mudbank.

It's scary. And the fires are intentional. Some people are so greedy that such warnings do not bother them. They can readily clear up the forest to fill their pockets.

A savannah, so not quite a desert.

@@nsbd90nowThe savanna is just a step in the path to becoming a desert, as savannas are deserts when it doesn't rain. Landscapes change over millions of years. Or, under human pressure, over millennia, centuries or even just decades, since we use machines instead of axes and other manual tools and cut not only the trees needed for their wood, but as many trees as possible to cultivate cheap soy to export to Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, etc. Soy to replace milk, soy to replace flour in some meals like sausages. More than 10 years ago I stopped buying and eating most sausages but the more expensive because they make them with soy instead of flour to cheapen them. So I replaced cheap sausages with ham from Iberian pork fed with acorn in Spanish meadows. More expensive, but more healthy for me, for the pigs wandering the meadows and for the conservation of the Amazon forests.

@@caniconcananas7687 Heh... TIL about savannas. Literally in-between forest and desert. Poor Amazon. Poor us.

its only 500 years old anyway, a new modern forest, there was no forest when the spanish invaded it was all farm land

world greed is the problem!!..HILLARIOUS!!!

propaganda can be scary sometimes yes

@@alenmorandl5104 propaganda? Like all the anti environmentalism, anti taxation, anti progressive propaganda I'll assume you consume on a daily basis? - since you called this factual report propaganda and clearly have no idea what ACTUAL propaganda looks like.

@@Fenthule don't be butthurt now if you don't see the propaganda. Maybe one day you will wake up.

@@alenmorandl5104 Facts aren't propaganda. Going out of your way to say otherwise in the RU-vid comment section puts a big "I'm paid to post here, or I've been fooled by the rich to post on their behalf" sign over your head.

It only takes a couple of thousand years after we all die for mother nature to put things back again, nature will win

The rich and greedy ignore them ..we dont

@@PeacefulMeteorShower-th8fk humans can think and are motivated by greed, animals are motivated purely by instincts, that is the difference and the reason why Apes can’t do things like drive a truck and roll coal, their instincts aren’t capable of that behaviour

Yes. And weather manipulation has been around for a long time. Especially cloud seeding to make it rain if they want to.

I have to look to find any news on the Amazon drought - it's not in the U.S. media on tv

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And beef of course. Ranching is the number 1 use of deforested land in the Amazon.

I've never heard of palm oil in the Amazon. This is more common in south east asia. In Amazon, they usually deforest to grow soy bean or ranching.

The leading causes of deforestation are many. Cattle ranching and soybean farming are colossal culprits, with cattle ranching accounting for 80% of current deforestation in the Amazon. Most of the soy is grown for animal feed for the global meat market So far, the bulk of Brazil’s palm oil production has been concentrated in Pará, Brazil’s cattle ranching heartland. But Roraima, where land is cheaper and plentiful, is rapidly becoming an attractive prospect for producers looking to expand.

​@@RenatoRMC Its out there. Time will soon shine a light on the hypocrisy regarding the Amazon.

Don't forget beef. People don't want to give up their cheap steaks and burgers. This is the consequence. People should be eating vegan as much as possible. But it won't happen. People believe they are entitled to have what they want when they want it and the world's growing desire for meat is having a devastating impact on our biosphere.

calling it a climate catastrophe is regarded alarmist language. clearly amazons part of a micro climate feedback loop that has little to do with global climate shifts, the real issue is corporate clear cutting, which this shit hardly addresses

Government needs to move EVERY HUMAN out of the Amazon and make it a no go area for 20 years. How much would that theoretically cost? I think less than 10 billion.. to save the lungs of the planet. If our lungs die, we die.

And when the poor grow rich they do exactly like the rich. The cause of the problem is a lot more complex .

Not only less rain. Also dead dirt that is washed away in the rivers and seas.

It's not going to happen. We can't even get the Republicans to wear a stupid mask during a pandemic. Regardless, we needed to act back in the 1970s. I'd bet global chaos will be well underway by 2030.

Soy needs a lot of water to grow, so it is probably not going to do well with drought conditions.

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