The Amazon bushfires are still burning. The G7 recently met and decided to invest 700 million yuan in disaster relief, and also required the Brazilian government to agree to the United Nations afforestation plan in the future. But the culprits of this fire may not only be the Brazilian government, but each of us, who may have indirectly caused environmental harm every time we turn down the temperature of the air conditioner and eat every bite of beef. A photo album of the earth that takes you to see the beautiful environment we once had.
Text: Womany Phoebe
On August 19, 2019, the news that the Amazon rainforest was being burned by fire was finally seen by the world, but before that day, the fire had been burning for nearly two weeks. According to the Brazilian National Space Agency (INPE), more than half of the more than 70,000 fires in Brazil this year are concentrated in the Amazon, which translates to more than 1.5 football fields burning every minute in the Amazon rainforest. (Recommended reading: World Turtle Day: Give the Earth Back, a Cleaner Future)
One minute, wait for a red light, and the rainforest, the size of 1.5 football fields, disappears.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) recently released a satellite cloud image of Brazil from outer space, which can be seen to be densely covered with red dots across Brazilian states. On August 26, 2019, seven major industrial organizations (G7), including the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Italy, held a summit in France and resolved to provide NT$700 million to assist in the Amazon forest fires and support the medium-term afforestation plan to be released by the United Nations in September.
Photo: NASA's official website
This fire is not only burning the Amazon forest, but also burning away some people's illusions that the environment is getting better. If you remember, we originally had such a beautiful ecology on the earth:
But now it has become something like this:
Photo: Reuters
Photo: Reuters
Do you still think that eating more beef and lowering the air conditioner by one degree has no impact on the environment? These photos may be the answer. (Recommended reading: Grunk Art Photography Collection: Dreaming of a day when the earth can be rid of plastic products)
The G7 decided to invest 700 million to help the Amazon fires, but we should all know that protecting the environment is not only the responsibility of the G7 alone, but also the responsibility of each and every one of us living on the same land.