The world is on fire
I want to dedicate this post to write about the constant fire in the Amazonas area. The story went viral couple of days ago but the fire is ongoing since weeks actually.
The Amazon is on fire
Don’t want to get to hypocritical about this topic as wild fires are happening year in year out, but the recent heatwaves I had to survive in London and on my luckier days on the beaches of Barcelona in the shadow with cold beers in my hands signaling bigger problems.
Our environment is changing, the entire globe is on fire, the temperature increasing and we are sitting in our comfort and doing nothing about it, don’t want to get into politics nor into social policies, cause it’s not all about that.
We can also do something, we don’t have to wait for no one else to make small changes, tiny things to fight with our relatively weak individual environmental footprint, but everybody counts, just like the famous grocery store behemoth’s slogan goes, “every little counts” it couldn’t be any more true than that.
We can vote with our feet, we shouldn’t purchase products from suppliers/retailers whom do not respect the nature, of course it is really hard to judge or implement, but it is not about perfection, we don’t need a handful of people doing it perfectly, instead millions doing it imperfectly.
So to get back to the topic just want to share few facts about the rainforest and the Amazonas and why is it so important to stop the fire somehow. So here it goes;
The Amazon is the world’s biggest tropical rainforest with its 5.5 Million square kilometre, just to put it in context, it’s so big that UK and Ireland would fit in it 17 times
Amazonas is spanning across Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, the biggest part of the rainforest is located in Brazil.
As everyone knows, its best known as the lung of planet earth, and its called like that for a reason, more than 20% of the planets Oxygen is coming from this very rainforest
Due to the thickness of the forest’s canopy (crown of the trees), the Amazon floor is in permanent darkness and when it rains, it takes more than 10 minutes till the rain reach the floor.
Amazon River is the second longest river in the planet after the Nile with its 6840 Km.
The Amazon rainforest is the biggest rainforest in the world and accounts for more than 50% of world’s rainforests.
It is believed it could be as many as 50 or more tribes living in the Amazon whom never been in contact with the modern world.
Amazon has a wide range of species, animals which are unique and can’t be found elsewhere.
10 Million species, animals, plants and insects are known for human and half of them call the Amazon rainforest its home.
1500 different birds live also in the rainforest.
If these amazing facts wouldn't be enough for you to be convinced why it is so important to preserve the Amazon rainforest, to stop the ongoing fire mainly in the Bolivian and Brazilian parts, then I don’t know what would be.
The fire has to be stopped, the earth is losing its lungs, the living space of more than 5 million species are getting lost in front of us. We can only hope that from this fire new life begins.
Nature and its preservation undoubtly the most important challenge of the 21st century. The population rapidly increased on the planet mainly in third world countries in the past 3 decades so did the industry to serve the increased population’s needs, it has been topped up with our consumer and waste culture, industrialisation matched with great marketing strategies to sell us things and wants what we don’t need and here we go, the results are deforestation, water contamination, increased temperature, global warming.
Our planet became smaller than ever, everything is connected with everything and as you can see by the facts tab, even though you might not living close to the Amazon rainforest, but hope you got the message that you and me and all of us need the rainforest, we all need to work to preserve the nature among us or even to contribute to its growth. We might not living close to Amazon but we can vote with our feets against corporations whom responsible for deforestations, child labour or water contamination or for unsustainable plastic waste. We can do something. It might not much but we can spread the news and the importance of nature.
As we talk now, Bolivian and Brazilian authorities due to the big international pressure started to act after weeks of wild fires to do something to stop it. Brazil for instance didn’t want to do nothing about it, didn’t even try to stop the fire due to the need for agricultural purposes, but once sanctions were about to being imposed on them, they suddenly changed their mind. They had to be pushed via the online and print media, via TV reports and diplomatical pressures. The results of negative media attention seemed liked working and the countries (Bolivia and Brazil) started to act after weeks.
Feel free to spread the words and don’t forget the less is more, the less deforestation are more Oxygen for all of us.
Gosh the less is more on every level.
Yours sincerely
To/Minimal
