Fossil Fuels Cause Drought-Fueling Fires in the Amazon Rainforest NOW.
The U.S. and China are the biggest offenders regarding fossil fuels!
Climate change is caused primarily by fossil fuels. Climate change has caused 5 years of drought in much of South America, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Pantanal Wetland, where I was filming last year. The Amazon Rainforest has been on fire this year with a record number of fires for October. The fires are caused by drought. The ongoing droughts are making it harder for the Amazon Rainforest to recover from the degradation and deforestation it has suffered. Thankfully, President Lula da Silva has reduced deforestation by about 60% since he took office, but the changing climate and increasing heat is working against us. This affects the entire world! The U.S. has got to step up and phase out fossil fuels with no new fossil fuel projects. Biden has GOT to declare a climate emergency to take more aggressive measures to move us forward and put us in a leadership position globally in addressing climate change. In the recent United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, the U.S. was not invited to speak because we have not made decent progress toward addressing climate change.
To be clear, we are not “losing” the Amazon Rainforest. Corporations are killing it in a myriad of ways—and they are killing life on Earth, including many people who die every day from climate disasters and from pollution (gas-powered car exhausts, unlined coal ash ponds causing cancers that are all over Georgia and Alabama, fossil fuel driven climate-fueled droughts and fires, etc.). Here is the Grist article I read this morning. Grist Article.
Around 75,000 people marched in New York demanding an end to fossil fuels and demanding that President Biden to declare a climate emergency. If he does, he will likely get more pushback—which he has already gotten through fake greed-driven “inflation” while corporations and oil companies make record profits, “supply chain issues” which were greatly exaggerated, and corporate funded attacks on his leadership. These actions function to make Americans frustrated and more likely to blame Biden instead of recognizing corporate greed and ways in which corporations work together to support the fossil fuel system. Fossil fuels are a get rich quick industry for a small number of people. Solar and wind require maintenance and upkeep so they create good steady jobs—which costs corporations money—and they don’t want to have to pay people good salaries and medical benefits, etc.
So we as the public have to continue to be peacefully very vocal in demanding an end to fossil fuels, and a fast just transition to renewable energy using recycled minerals—not mining—(especially not deep sea mining which is actually for the military—not renewables according to scientists speaking in a recent webinar.) A just transition also means paying people while they retrain to transition to jobs in solar and wind or other jobs like retrofitting, etc. Or paying retirement for those who are age-ready to retire rather than retrain.
I just emailed President Biden AGAIN to express the fact that we cannot protect our climate if our corporate structure’s criminal fossil fuel deception and refusal to act and blocking of real action by our leaders—kills the Amazon Rainforest. Fossil fuels are driving climate change which is creating drought which is causing horrific fires all over the world, including the Amazon Rainforest—and even if the Amazon is not on fire, the drought is still affecting the Amazon Rainforest’s ability to create and recycle moisture that is given off and becomes its “flying rivers” int he atmosphere above. These flying rivers create rain and influence weather worldwide—and there is actually more water in these flying rivers than the water in the Amazon’s rivers on land. This is a vicious cycle—and it is not going in the right direction.
Please take moment to write to President Biden and ask him to:
Declare a climate emergency
Revoke all licenses/permits for any new oil, gas, or coal projects
Stop Pipelines 3 and 5 in the U.S. encroaching on Indigenous rights.
Pass through Executive Order the Forest Act and include in it oil, gas, and coal.
Executive Order that all ships unloading at Savannah Port be inspected for illegal lumber from the Amazon Rainforest (which is where most illegal lumber from the Amazon goes—Savannah Port in the U.S. and China, according to the recent documentary film, We Are Guardians.)
An easy link to write the White House is online search or on the Take Action page of my film website: https://www.savingjaguarsandourselves.com
Thanks for caring!
Susan