Dear friends:

The recent news from the Amazonia is terrible. The largest ecosystem of our world is collapsing. Politicians say that forest fires are due to drought events and that environmentalists magnify the problem. All is possible if one keeps an open mind. However, we know that the main cause of forest fires in the Amazonia is of anthropogenic origin. That is, deforestation followed by residues burning with the proposal of mining development, agricultural production, livestock expansion, etc. As an environmental physicist by love, my colleagues and I have published some papers concerning the dynamics of the Amazonia climate. Our recent paper (Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, v. 34, n. 2, 325 – 334, 2019) was another called of attention. Deforestation is affecting the rainfall occurrence (I am attaching a manuscript submitted to Acta Amazonica, March/2019). Unfortunately it seems that politicians do not take a look to scientific reports.

I have a final comment. It does not matter whether we are Physicists, Biologists or Engineers, I feel we, as a community, have to propose practical initiatives for saving the lung of the world. I lived and worked in Manaus during two years as an invited professor of Physics at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas. Thus, this affects my feelings.

Best regards

Humberto

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