Maybe if the news the media spread was true.
I am Brazilian, I know what is happening here and the international interest in it.
Every year, worldwide, where there is forest, there is a dry season and fires, in Brazil would be no different. We have several natural biomes, not just forests, we have the Serrado, Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, among others.
Forest fires are common in the Cerrado and the Amazon Region at this time of the year and large smokers of smoke detected by satellite images are not rare. On August 25, 2016, for example, NASA has released images similar to this year, showing fires in Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. At the time, the increase in fires was attributed not only to human activity, but also to El Niño and to other climate anomalies. The President of Brazil at the time was Dilma Rousseff.
Celebrities are using images from other countries, another time, to talk about what is happening now, today.
No one, not even the President of France has avoided this and is trying to create an international environmental crisis (There is some interest behind it).
The photo shared by French President Emmanuel Macron, for example, depicts a fire in the Amazon, but is found in a September 2012 Nature magazine article. It was taken by photographer Loren McIntyre, who died in 2003, and is for sale at the bank. Alamy images. Macron's publication is reversed - the fire appears from left to right, unlike the original context.
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This has a name, COLONIALIST MENTALITY.
South America does not belong to Europe anymore. The Amazon is from Brazil and we will protect you from these international interests. Who are not worried at all, whether there catches fire or not.
With the fake stories they make up to justify invading countries - remember Iran's missiles they never found?
Model Gisele Bündchen, soccer player Daniel Alves, singer Camila Cabello and actor Leonardo diCaprio also spread the picture amid messages about Amazon awareness.
Singer Madonna, in turn, released a 1989 photo taken in the Amazon. The click was made to the agency Sipa Press and later sold to Rex Features. The image is part of an album about deforestation in the region at that time.
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Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo shared a picture of the year 2013 from southern Brazil - the Amazon is in the north, over 5,000 kilometers. See that there are no trees, it is not a forest, it is an environmental park in the Serrado Brasileiro.
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There have also been celebrities, or rather, celebrity children spreading misguided images to prove ecologically correct. Jaden Smith, son of star Will Smith, shared a picture of the burning forest on Instagram, calling on people to “spread the word” about the Brazilian tragedy.
The problem is that the photo, which had over 1.4 million likes on the social network, is from 1989 and was reproduced by The Guardian newspaper in 2007. The image was also used by singer Chris Brown and singer Ross Lynch who, in his publication, he asked somewhat exasperated, “Where can I donate? What can we do?"
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One of these publications going around the world on Wednesday (21), helping to spread the hashtag #PrayforAmazonas (sic), shows a photo of a charred rabbit and a monkey holding a supposedly dead cub in its arms, in an ecologically conscious reproduction of the Michelangelo's Pietà.
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Stock Photo - Malibu, California, USA. 12th Nov, 2018. A rabbit suffering from burns struggles to find safety, as the Woolsey Fire continues to burn. Credit: Chris Rusanowsky/ZUMA Wire/Alamy
According to NASA, Amazon burnings are below the of the last 15 years
The United States Space Agency (NASA) released a photo showing the concentration of fires in the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, in the northern region of the country.
In the picture, the largest rainforest in the world is consumed by flames. The data detail that the fires are concentrated in places where the forest has been cleared for pasture.
According to NASA, although “activity has been above average in Amazonas and, to a lesser extent, in Rondônia, it has been below average in Mato Grosso and Pará.”
He adds that “as of August 16, 2019, satellite observations indicated that the total fire activity in the Amazon basin was slightly below average compared to the last 15 years.”
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“NASA's Aqua satellite moderate-resolution spectroscopy (MODIS) recorded images of various fires in the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará and Mato Grosso on August 11 and August 13, 2019.With information, Nasa
In the Amazon region, fires are rare most of the year because the humid climate prevents them from starting and spreading. However, in July and August, activity usually increases due to the arrival of the dry season.
Many people use fire to maintain arable land and pastures or to clear land for other purposes. Typically, the peak of activity in early September and mainly until the month of November.
As of August 16, 2019, satellite observations indicated that total fire activity in the Amazon basin was slightly below average compared to the last 15 years.
Although activity has been above average in Amazonas and, to a lesser extent, in Rondônia, it has been below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to the World Bank on Fire Emissions. ”
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