How to protect the Amazon rainforest from the negative effects of the global warming process?
Is the current (end of August 2019) Amazon rainforest fire a serious SOS signal for Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has apparently been exceeded?
To the problems resulting from the predatory economy of obtaining wood from the Amazon rainforest, nowadays we should add the more frequent drought and fires of this Amazon rainforest.
In recent years, the number of cases of weather anomalies and climate disasters caused by climate change related to the increasingly faster global warming process is growing rapidly. The increasingly faster global warming process is the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions emitted by industry and the energy sector producing electricity and heat based on the burning of minerals. In addition, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions is due to the development of the automotive industry also powered by burning minerals. Greenhouse gases are also emitted by agriculture, mainly livestock production carried out using traditional production technologies without complying with the principles of organic farming. In addition, the burning of rubbish, including plastics, causes greenhouse gases and toxic to humans and other forms of life chemical compounds to be released into the atmosphere. Due to the warming climate of the Earth, the consumption of electricity is growing, because the houses are installed larger refrigerators, refrigerators, air conditioners and more electronic devices enabling access to the Internet. The increase in demand for electricity causes a rapid increase in generation capacity in traditional power plants generating this energy based on traditional energy, consisting in burning increasingly larger amounts of hard coal, lignite, mazout from crude oil and other minerals.
Due to the above, a very negative effect of the progressing global warming process are more and more frequently occurring weather anomalies and climatic disasters, above all the more frequent drought causing forest fires. Increasingly larger forest fire areas cause degradation of natural environments. For example, at present (August 2019) there are forest fires of the Siberian Tundra at the Arctic Circle, fires of large areas of the Amazon rainforest, forest fires in many places in Europe and in many other places of other continents. This is another very negative effect of the more and more frequent drought and other weather anomalies being a derivative of the progressing global warming process. Droughts and fires very quickly cause impoverishment of biodiversity, soil sterility, degradation of natural environments, decline in the number of living organisms, extinction of many species of flora and fauna and other negative processes.
These fires, especially the Amazon rainforest fires in Brazil are very negative for the Earth's ecosystem due to climate change. The Amazon rainforests produce up to 20 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. oxygen. During current fires (end of August 2019), part of the Amazon rainforest with an area of 1.5 football field burns every minute. the government in Brazil has announced that it does not have the resources to counteract this problem. It does not have enough firefighters and firefighting equipment to even try to put out the fire. This is a problem not only for Brazil but for the whole world. This is a global problem. The problem of the burning enormous rainforests of the Amazon rainforest should be the subject of urgent convening of a special UN conference as soon as possible, including the participation of many other international ecological organizations, governments of many countries, internationally operating financial institutions and industrial corporations capable of providing assistance and organizing measures and necessary actions to put out the fire as soon as possible. The Amazon rainforest fire is already a serious SOS signal for the Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has clearly been exceeded.
Therefore, quick actions are necessary to extinguish this fire and implement in Brazil and other countries programs of systemic implementation of sustainable pro-ecological development in accordance with the green economy philosophy. It is not easy in the situation of a developing country, a country that is just developing its industry and technology in order to achieve a level of economic development similar to the level of income, equipment with technologies etc. in highly developed countries. Therefore, systematic international assistance is needed for Brazil and other developing countries, which lack funds for implementing eco-innovations and implementing ecological reforms, among others in the field of development of renewable energy sources and limiting the plundering economy of obtaining wood from the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest fires are a serious SOS signal sent by nature towards humanity. There is less and less time for the implementation of the necessary pro-ecological activities. These are no longer paraphylosophical deliberations as was thought in public opinion at the turn of the 20th century. The progressing global warming process is a fact. It is also a fact that climate change, which is unfavorable for life on Earth, is primarily the responsibility of man.
Climatologists estimate that the necessary pro-ecological reforms in global terms should be carried out by 2030 at the latest for effective slowing of the global warming process to be effective. If this plan is not implemented, then by the end of the 21st century the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by another min. 3-4 degrees, which will result in an increase in climate disasters. Earlier there will be a complete melting of glaciers, the release of methane from the thawing Siberian tundra and other polar regions, an increase in drought, fires and volcanic eruptions. This will cause a chain reaction of climatic disasters that are a derivative of global warming and at the same time the same processes will be the source of further greenhouse gas emissions and an increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface. If the climate change process enters the aforementioned chain reaction of climate disasters related to the global warming process, then it will not be possible to stop and significantly slow down these negative processes on Earth's life. However, there are still a few, max. several years to implement environmentally friendly reforms globally, implement sustainable economic development in economic processes carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy. Therefore, the current question is: Will humanity use this remaining time to implement this plan. It is the biggest global civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century.
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In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following questions:
Is the current (end of August 2019) Amazon rainforest fire a serious SOS signal for Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has apparently been exceeded?
How to protect the Amazon rainforest from the negative effects of the global warming process?
Please reply
I invite you to discussion
Thank you very much
Best wishes
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Joining the above discussion I would like to add a few words. The problem is very important, so it requires clarification and investigation. The discussion on the Research Gate portal shows that most of the main science mission proposals for the 21st century are related to environmental protection, biodiversity, the introduction of necessary ecological reforms, the implementation of economic sustainable development principles in line with the concept of green economy, etc. I also agree. with the above dominant opinion on this issue.
The progressing global warming process is a great threat to life on Earth, including man. This threat will become globally real in a few decades if the temperature rise at the Earth's surface diagnosed by climatologists continues to progress faster. Therefore, in the next period max. For several years, there should be a total reduction and elimination of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
It is necessary to increase financial outlays from state budgets for the implementation of these pro-ecological reforms. These reforms should be carried out primarily in the energy sector and in other industry sectors responsible for environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid development of electromobility, recycling, conversion of plastic into biodegradable materials, etc. is necessary.
Many fields of science, many research projects commissioned and financed by national governments and by commercially operating technology corporations should be involved in the creation of eco-friendly innovations. It is necessary to increase international cooperation and coordination in these activities because the problem is global.
One of the effects of the global warming process are more and more often occurring fires in various climate zones, on different continents, including in the Arctic Circle, i.e. in the zone where fires had almost never occurred before. An example is the forest fire in the Siberian Tundra. In addition, rainforest fires are increasing in Africa, South America and elsewhere in the subtropics.
In the context of the above considerations, the following key questions arise:
What measures should be taken by national governments to reduce the risk of forest fires arising and developing that significantly reduce forest areas, i.e. deforestate large land areas on Earth?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
Please reply
I invite you to discussion
The signs are revealing enough. However, it seems that there is no end to human avarice. Unfortunately, the need for taking action against the destructive effects of global warming must be recognized by the influential and powerful governments like America. Alas, they are the main culprit in the devastating process.
Yes, it is a reality that "Amazon rainforest fire is a serious SOS signal for Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna". Such disappointing signs are directly affecting local indigenous tributes, since their subsistence level was lowered in terms of not hunting, but satisfying their feeding needs by bargaining in the local (rural) market. Besides, the low carrying capacity of local ecosystem to restore the losses of forestry wealth, and the imbalance upon global natural cycles (including biologically active elements) caused by this natural calamity, are adversely affecting the global humanity, as well.
Dear Dariusz, good night. His words reflect the feeling of all the honest men of the planet, of the entire scientific community and surely of millions of people throughout the Earth. I subscribe his words as a personal commitment in defense of all just causes, especially in defense of Mother Nature. I fully agree with you, it is time to say enough to these facts and to cut the way to those responsible. Unfortunately, these events occur as a consequence, among other factors, of the limited participation of peoples in decision-making on environmental issues. The coming to power of certain forces and ignorance of the true causes of poverty, the predation that capital is subjecting to nature have led us to this critical point. José Martí said: "It's time for the ovens and you have to see nothing but the light." We have nothing left but to denounce the causes that cause these events, above any political position and ideology we have to raise our voice against these events. I am glad to share with you this reflection, You are an expert in the subject and know that we are among the now or never of the Earth. My considerations for you.
Please take a look at the following references.
Article Deforestation-Induced Fragmentation Increases Forest Fire Oc...
Article Dynamics of forest fires in the southwestern Amazon
The problem of the fires in the Amazon forest is not due to global warming, the problem is due to the deforestation policies promoted by president Bolsonaro in Brazil. We need to denounce and stop this ecological dissaster.
Deforestation explains most of the fires. Historically, (fires) are linked to the progress of deforestation, combined with periods of intense dry season. But in this year 2019 we do not have a drought as severe as that of previous years and there is a substantial increase in fires.
So everything indicates that the dry season is not the predominant factor nor the climatic change. If there had been more drought, it would have been much worse.
-Fires always had the hand of man; Fire is used to clean already deforested areas, to open roads or to prepare farmland. The lack of prevention makes these fires spread to areas that did not want to burn and are drier. Many times, if they do not become extinct with the rain, they end up finding more dense and humid vegetation barriers and turn off.
https://theglobepost.com/2019/07/01/brazil-bolsonaro-amazon/
Continuing our discussion, I would like to add a few important points. Well, the rainforests of the Amazon rainforest have been for many years devastated by foreign concerns and companies that are destroying this forest to obtain land for farming crops and for the needs of cow breeding, pork production for export to many countries, to other regions of the world. Rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has been progressing for many years in connection with tree felling to obtain wood from unique, rare tree species, including specific stately tree specimens growing for many years. During this felling huge areas of the forest are destroyed. In recent years, this predatory forestry has been supplemented by burning tropical forests to obtain land transformed into arable land. A significant part of this production of agricultural products and pork is bought by rich countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
The problem is, among other things, that when consumers in these highly developed countries of the Northern Hemisphere buy these products in stores, they are usually not aware that by buying these food products they contribute to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. This is the lack of effective communication and promotion of the need to change consumers' shopping habits to which agricultural products are exported. In addition, the rainforest converted into arable land has fertile soil usually for max. several years. After this time, the soil quickly goes barren and agricultural production companies in a plundering manner, intensively acquire further areas of the tropical forest, which through deforestation they turn into arable land. It is a predatory, intensive and short-sighted economy. After a few years, the land is barren and enormous resources should be allocated to restoring the forest.
Unfortunately, the country in which this fast deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is taking place is also responsible. The Brazilian government is therefore jointly responsible for this predatory forest management, which causes the rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. The rich countries to which the abovementioned agricultural crops are exported should change their policy in such a way that this export gradually falls and should help developing countries, e.g. Brazil, to solve the problem of rapid deforestation of the Amazon rain forests. This is not a problem only in Brazil. This problem affects many developing countries whose economies are indebted and are building their economic development through the sale of raw materials, agricultural products and other food products. This is a global problem, because the Amazon rainforests produce about 20 percent of the planet's atmosphere. Oxygen! The destruction of these forests will deepen the current imbalance in nature, which man has led to. This will result in the intensification of climate disasters, acceleration of climate change processes and the global warming process!
These problems are exacerbated by the current (late August 2019) fires of the Amazon rainforest. In my opinion, the scale of these fires increased by about 80 percent. compared to the previous year may be to a significant extent the result of the progressing global warming process, which process drains larger and larger land areas in various climate zones, melting glaciers, etc. The confirmation of this thesis is the fact that this year there are also numerous forest fires in other regions of the world, in other climatic zones, on other continents and in places where fires did not occur on such a scale as today. For example, the current forest fires of the Siberian Tundra, tropical rainforest fires on the islands of Oceania, tropical forest fires in South Africa, etc. confirm this thesis that these are further negative effects of the ongoing global warming process.
On the other hand, the global warming process is mainly caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions generated by the energy sector based on classic energy generating electricity from fossil combustion and the automotive industry also based on internal combustion engines. In connection with the above, it is necessary to increase expenditure in all countries on ecological reforms in order to implement the principles of sustainable ecological development according to the green economy philosophy. In connection with the above, the following question arises: Will the current negative effects of the global warming process, including, inter alia, more and more often occurring forest fires, force politicians and entrepreneurs to quickly carry out necessary reforms in the energy sector and the automotive industry? Will humanity manage to restore balance in nature at least partially, or will it be possible to repair at least partially those damages that man has caused in natural environment over the last over 100 years?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
Please reply
Joining the above discussion I would like to add a few words. The problem is very important, so it requires clarification and investigation. The discussion on the Research Gate portal shows that most of the main science mission proposals for the 21st century are related to environmental protection, biodiversity, the introduction of necessary ecological reforms, the implementation of economic sustainable development principles in line with the concept of green economy, etc. I also agree. with the above dominant opinion on this issue.
The progressing global warming process is a great threat to life on Earth, including man. This threat will become globally real in a few decades if the temperature rise at the Earth's surface diagnosed by climatologists continues to progress faster. Therefore, in the next period max. For several years, there should be a total reduction and elimination of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
It is necessary to increase financial outlays from state budgets for the implementation of these pro-ecological reforms. These reforms should be carried out primarily in the energy sector and in other industry sectors responsible for environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid development of electromobility, recycling, conversion of plastic into biodegradable materials, etc. is necessary.
Many fields of science, many research projects commissioned and financed by national governments and by commercially operating technology corporations should be involved in the creation of eco-friendly innovations. It is necessary to increase international cooperation and coordination in these activities because the problem is global.
One of the effects of the global warming process are more and more often occurring fires in various climate zones, on different continents, including in the Arctic Circle, i.e. in the zone where fires had almost never occurred before. An example is the forest fire in the Siberian Tundra. In addition, rainforest fires are increasing in Africa, South America and elsewhere in the subtropics.
In the context of the above considerations, the following key questions arise:
What measures should be taken by national governments to reduce the risk of forest fires arising and developing that significantly reduce forest areas, i.e. deforestate large land areas on Earth?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
Please reply
I invite you to discussion
On behalf of savage and neo-fascist capitalism we are witnessing the greatest environmental disaster in history against America and the entire planet with the deliberated fires in the Amazon basin. The greed of the heartless voracity of corporations, ranchers, the complicit governments of capital, extractivism and all criminals who benefit from the disappearance of the rainforest. More than 70,000 wildfires in Brazil without control favored by the mockery and insensitivity of the neo-nazi Bolsonaro, a criminal against humanity, an accomplice of Trump and the fires.
The holocaust of the lung of the world is a suicidal act, not only of greed, but of bad faith and stupidity. Bolsonaro announced the elimination of the Ministry of the Environment, and announces giving the burned areas to the farmers, whom he supports without any shame, Brazilian farmers who produce 10% of the meat consumed by the world in the devastated Amazon. Like Trump who denies global warming, which he considers an invention by environmentalists, Bolsonaro ignores international environmental protection agreements and stigmatizes indigenous people as enemies of progress. In Brazil it is where most environmentalists are killed.
In Brazil, it is clear that a large percentage of the fires are arson or deliberate fires. An inconceivable crime. Capitalist progress is the death of the earth, the loss of water, air pollution, the loss and extinction of biodiversity, global warming and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Three weeks ago the fires consumed the Amazon rainforest and the government does nothing. Wait for the Apocalypse to complete, what does not burn, is cut down. It is the Modus Operandi to appropriate the common good turned ashes to fill them with cattle and soybean crops. Fires affect water sources in Brazil, in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, even in the Andean region. The blizzards of sand and ash that bandage from the Amazon will make us breathe a quasi-toxic air, all to fill the accounts of the rich farmers and businessmen of the continent and the world, at the cost of the destruction of the environment. 20 million tons of water and 900,000 indigenous people living in the forest and thousands of endangered species of flora and fauna are in danger.
Fires are actions caused criminally by agents of agribusiness and livestock, but for Bolsonaro science lies, does not believe that the Amazon contributes 20% of the world's oxygen, they are choking us, the emergency is immense, catastrophic as never seen before in the last centuries of the earth. The drought is not the cause of the fires, there are immense economic interests that order the burning and that they obtained free of Bolsonaro so that farmers and great investors get rich at the cost of the entire life of the planet, suicides, criminals. The next stage will be the legalization of burned and razed land in the hands of arsonists.
In a few months Bolsonaro finished the conservation work of a whole generation. The jungle if it survives will take at least two centuries to recover from the damage. The violent fires will generate more violence, the pyromanians will feel protected by ultracapitalist power and will continue if the world does not stop them. It is the entire world that must react in defense of planet earth. Mother Earth has been attacked and in that way, so burned she will rise from her ashes and be returned against her incinerators.
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
By joining the above discussion, I would like to add a few words about the negative aspects of the global warming process, which is moving faster and faster. The problem is very important, so it requires clarification and investigation. The discussion conducted on the Research Gate website shows that there are many negative aspects of the global warming process, which is progressing faster and faster for the environment, human, flora and fauna on Earth. It is necessary to implement the principles of sustainable ecological development as soon as possible in the formula of the green economy philosophy. One of the key aspects of implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological economic development is the development of renewable energy sources. However, many barriers to the development of renewable energy sources have been diagnosed. In addition to financial barriers, political and business barriers related to the lobbying of mining enterprises acquiring energy minerals and power plants producing energy in the formula of classic energy based on the combustion of hard coal, lignite, petroleum oil and other minerals are also important. In addition, it is necessary to develop international cooperation with the goal of supranational, global coordination of the processes of implementing ecological reforms, because the problem of the global warming process that is increasing faster and faster applies to the entire globe, it is a global problem.
In the context of the above considerations, the following key questions arise:
- Should international cooperation be developed to reduce the political and business barriers to the development of renewable energy sources?
- What kind of international institutions should financially support the processes of implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological economic development in less developed countries, e.g. by financing renewable energy development programs?
- Do the subsequent negative effects of the global warming process, such as the increasing number of forest fires in various climate zones, contribute to changing energy policy and implementing ecological reforms in your countries?
- What kind of renewable energy sources are being developed or are planned for development in your countries?
- How should international cooperation be developed to improve the coordination of pro-ecological reform processes carried out in different countries?
- What do you think about this topic?
- What is your opinion on this topic?
- Do you agree with me on the above matter?
Please reply
I invite you to discussion
Thank you very much
I think through the manufacture of more efficient materials than the materials currently used in extinguishing the fires of the Amazon forest and there must be broad international cooperation in this area
dear Dariusz, dear Louis,
I totally agree with you and appreciate your valuable comments.
My helpless attemps to contribute to CO2 saving are to drive a much smaller car, to educate my own children in getting a sensitve conciousness for Clima and GWP, not forget drinking water ressources, educating students, doing research since 35 years in environmental problems, developed a close loop balancing methotology wirth worldwide success. But I have to recognize my helplessness looking at Trump and 52 % of the Amercans who voted him, Bolsonaro and his voters, ...Contiuing this row we will end at minimum the half of the mankind, probabely 85 % of it.
The only true solution will be to increase the education level of man. But.......
greetings from a frustrated and helpless Peter (up to now I allways have been an optimist!)
Although education is the only solution as pointed out by prof. Peter Eyerer, the more we talk about protecting the environment, the more people will eventually get it and do something about it. Even Trump is slowly getting it due to the overwhelming outcry he has caused by his anti-green policies. I think the USA people are not so stupid as he is and he is learning from them.
As far as the Amazon Forest, the worldwide outcry has forced even the Brazilian government to limit the expansion of farming into the forest.
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG, Thank you very much for participating in the discussion, but since the topic is a priority, I invite you to continue the discussion on this very important topic. The strong increase in forest fires in various climate zones of the planet Earth recorded in 2019 is a serious warning signal for humanity. It is a kind of SOS signal sent by the Earth's nature towards man, that the development of civilization with the negative effects of this development is approaching the critical point of imbalance in nature. After exceeding this critical point, it will no longer be possible to stop the global warming process that is accelerating and the destruction of most of the Earth's biosphere at the end of the 21st century will become a reality. Time is running out.
In this connection, the key question arises:
What should a man do regarding the implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development in the coming years?
How to protect the Earth's biosphere, natural biodiversity and thus also humanity against destruction, against climate armageddon at the end of the 21st century?
Please reply
I invite you to discussion
Thank you very much
Best wishes
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Luis Miguel Constantino, see this: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6460/1387
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