Oh, the mighty Amazon is burning down, the “lungs of the world are on fire”! Whatever shall we do?! Doomsday is upon us! ….. Or is this just more leftist hysteria? Surely not, you say?
Yes… and don’t call me Shirley. Whenever I see a story so completely dominate the idiotic legacy media and churn lefties into a boiling froth of fear and loathing, I’ve come to immediately suspect the intake of some serious intravenous hyperbole. And as usual, I wasn’t wrong this time, either.
Recent NASA data is debunking the delirium of the progressively incoherent with the following facts:
“In the Amazon region, fires are rare for much of the year because wet weather prevents them from starting and spreading. However, in July and August, activity typically increases due to the arrival of the dry season. Many people use fire to maintain farmland and pastures or to clear land for other purposes. Typically, activity peaks in early September and mostly stops by November.
“As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.”
source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil
Read that again: “… close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.” In other words, NASA is seeing nothing particularly noteworthy, much less alarming, about Amazon fire activity this year.
We all love the Amazon Rainforest. Hell, I’d love the see the Yanomami people keep on trucking in their traditional lifestyle, forever undisturbed. And were the Amazon truly going up in smoke, my heart would break.
But to seize on a story, ratchet it up beyond recognition in an attempt to leverage it like a cudgel against “evil capitalists” is pure propaganda and exaggeration… bullshit, if you prefer. And leftists are our resident experts.
It’s overwrought fake news and hand-wringing hysteria like this Amazon thing which is destroying any credibility the left ever had… which, once you get beyond the music of the 70s, wasn’t much to begin with.
If anything is being consumed by fire these days, it’s the so-called “progressive” liberal wing in this country… and they lit the match.