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Originally posted by KMitch200:
Aren’t the “lungs of the globe” still diatoms? (like they have been for millions of years)

I don’t like burning to clear space for farms but people do have to feed themselves.
The number of times we’ve been told the end is near is REALLY getting annoying.

One would think that it would be better to use logging to clear land instead of burning. Are the trees there not suitable for lumber? (I've always heard that wood from the Amazon forest is in great demand.)

flashguy

Most farmers aren’t in a position to engage in international lumber trade. True, forestry would be a better idea but it is much more expensive than burning. Burning takes much less money up front.

- Bret

Not all trees are usable for lumber, and not all greenery in the Amazon area is trees.

Beside there’s probably some sort of international embargo or tariffs on lumber from the Amazon.

Haven’t seen much more than a casual mention up here. Most of our coverage has been on all of the wildfires burning around Alaska. It’s been a bad fire season with lots of acreage and homes lost, and of course blamed on global warming with predictions of gloom and doom...

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
Beside there’s probably some sort of international embargo or tariffs on lumber from the Amazon.

Haven’t seen much more than a casual mention up here. Most of our coverage has been on all of the wildfires burning around Alaska. It’s been a bad fire season with lots of acreage and homes lost, and of course blamed on global warming with predictions of gloom and doom...

I was born in Alaska but one of the places I grew up in ('60s- '70s) was a small town in the Pacific NW. We lived on a very large lake surrounded by forested mountains and with high temperatures it was common and expected for forest fires every Summer. There was a Forest Ranger Station Look-Out Tower on the ridge line high above our home and town and my father would take me on a hike to the tower and we would climb the ladder and crawl through the trap door on to the glassed-in platform and visit with the rangers manning the tower during the fire season while we enjoyed the spectacular panaramic view. Some Summers the fires were so close we could see them burning the ridge lines above us and it was common to see helicopters dipping their buckets into the lake and climb out to dump them on their fire target. There was a young couple who lived across the street from us, but it was common to see the wife by herself for months at a time because her husband was a Forest Ranger fire fighter and was gone for much of the year fighting various fires...of course all these fires were taking place back when several scientists claimed we were heading into an Ice Age in the next 20-30 years.

You don't have to look very hard to find mention of various forest fires being fought a hundred years ago, long before Global Warming/ Climate Change became the "crisis du jour" of the Progressive Left.

Adding to what TXJIM posted on page 1:



Full article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur