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1y ago

Lula da Silva keeps his promise: Amazon deforestation reduced by 64%

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Are they allowing the Amazon rainforest to reconstitute itself? Is this a net gain or is the total area of rainforest still shrinking?
Things getting worse a bit more slowly is not that uplifting tbh.
- In order for the forest to no longer shrink, the decrease in deforestation would have to be at least 100%.
  
  Or the rate of reforestation must be greater than the rate of deforestation.
- Better than getting worse more quickly, which is what was happening.
- It's a step in the right direction, at least
  
  No it's a step in the wrong direction at a slower speed
- Forest still exists (positive)
  Forest is shrinking (first derivative is negative)
  Forest shrank less than it did previously (second derivative is positive)

Seems like this dude is way better than the last guy.

Tho now the deforestation in the cerrado (another bio system near the amazon), has gone up dramatically.
- Partly because many recently deforested areas (mainly in Mato Grosso) were "legally" reclassified from Amazon to Cerrado. Either way, there is still massive deforestation going on, no matter how anyone manipulates the statistics.

Awesome! But we're not done. Keep going.

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