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Environment & Energy

Think. Again.

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1. We can't pretend anymore that what happens in other people's backyards...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:25 PM

Sep 2024

...doesn't effect us.

The Amazon is a major driver of the entire planet's ecological system's funtioning and balances.

When one major, or even minor, part of any system fails, the domino effect can cause the entire system to cease functioning completely.

At the very least, the drastic changes our planetary systems will have to go through to try to re-achieve a working balance will be devastating to our populated societies.

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