Brazil: End the Amazon apocalypse!
Right now, THOUSANDS of wildfires are burning down the Amazon, with black smoke plunging entire cities into darkness...
Avaaz has just delivered over a million voices to the Brazilian Congress, and this petition is going super viral! With the fires out of control, Brazil’s government has come under massive pressure to act -- let’s use this moment to make sure they do. Sign and share with everyone now!
In the past year, an area the size of 500,000 soccer fields has been destroyed in the Amazon! Nearly half a BILLION trees torn down and gone... forever.
This is how they do it: armed militia swarm into protected areas, and indigenous leaders who stand up to them are murdered. There’s even stories of planes dropping gasoline to start massive forest fires. And Brazil's far-right President Bolsonaro is making it even worse by stripping the Amazon of its remaining protections!
Right now, Amazon champions in Brazil’s Congress are considering sweeping new protections for the precious rainforest. And indigenous groups are calling for international support to ramp up pressure to defend their home.
Let’s build a massive call of citizens from around the world to protect the forest -- when it's huge, allies will deliver our voices to Congress in each key moment to silence the chainsaws and stop this Amazon apocalypse!
Please help save the Amazon, the very lungs of our planet, by signing this petition. Avaaz do really great work around the world helping the peoples of the Globe real opinions be heard - join us - it is easy and you will make a difference!
This is shocking a the global leader (so called) are all flexing there muscles rather than acting, it just show the state of humanity at the moment unfortunately 💯🐒
Hey good to see you vibeof100monkeys,
Yes indeed - but change is coming - the Age of Aquarius … it now - we are just making the change from the old system of money and war - it has been a couple of thousand years of BS!
Keep well :D
Indeed a slow process but the pivotal point is near 💯🐒
Thanks for sharing. A petition worth signing! Resteemed and upvoted
Thank you Sallybeth :D
hi icedrum..
signed and resteemed :)
Thank you zpzn :D
welcome icedrum <3
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I saw this as well on my social media feeds but some are saying that those are fake news and those images came from a decade ago with some not even from the same continent.
Hello ankarlie,
Great to see you! I value your opinion greatly and getting real information/news can indeed be difficult, but I must point out the Amazon rainforest has experienced a record number of fires this year, with 72,843 reported so far. It's an 84 percent increase over the number of wildfires at the same time last year! If you have heard this is not the case I fear that would be fake news or propaganda to misinform and hide the true severity of the situation. If you do have any proof I would extremely interested to see it! Please post it here.
Thank you so much for commenting - have a great day :D
The effects of these disasters are true and I have a pretty good Idea why this is happening and I believe that action must be done why these things are happening. Spreading awareness about these is really important and believe me I am all for that. I might not be as active as others but I understand that I carry as much as stake here than any one of us, we are after all living in the same planet. What worries me is how information is being disseminated because it will have the negative effect if it is exaggerated or worse just to add a little bit of more dramatic effect, use false information, in this case fake pictures just to drive a a point. What worried me is that instead of people seeing empathy for one's cause they may feel distrust.
Yes climate change is one important issue that we have to address since it will not only affect as but it will affect all the future generations of mankind. But we have to do in a proper way, as they say the means does not justifies the ends. Because if we taint our wonderful cause of bringing awareness about this all important issue-climate change, with just an iota of doubt, then everything falls apart even the argument that indeed there is a problem with our climate that might bring forth catastrophic effects in our planet, which we are already experiencing, will be subject distrust.
Hello Ankarlie,
I totally agree... we do need honest, trustworthy news resources - not easy to find, there are a few still thankfully! Thank you for your excellent comment.