That prompted President Bolsonaro to deploy the military to the forest to secure it. The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the annual rate of increase last. Science advisers counseled that when the "tipping point" is reached, the ecosystem could start radiating more ozone-depleting substances rather than absorbing it, destroying the atmosphere and escalating climate change. GENEVA: Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record levels last year, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark warning ahead of the COP26 summit about worsening global warming. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro was advised that his industrialization policies, which include opening of the Amazon for industrial and agricultural expansion, could change the world's most extensive rainforest into a drier savannah-like area. This can happen in various ways: increased breeding sites for disease vectors such as irrigation channels and dams where disease-carrying insects or microorganisms proliferate human-induced genetic changes in pathogens and environmental contamination by infectious disease agents.Īccording to the Brazilian Space Agency's monitoring system, deforestation in the Amazon rose over half in the initial three months of 2020 contrasted with a similar three-month time span a year ago. Thus, habitat loss and decline in biodiversity are now listed as factors in the spread of infectious diseases like anthrax, dengue, Ebola and coronaviruses. It includes a diverse group of infections which can be caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi or other organisms. Unbeknown to many, deforestation increases the risk of emerging zoonotic diseases, which are transmitted from mammals to humans. Burning of plants and trees releases dangerous CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
Simply explained, CO2 which is emitted by man's daily activities serve as nutrients for plants which store them in the roots, leaves and trunks. Science has long confirmed the production of oxygen by the Amazon rainforest such that when trees are torn down for timber, agriculture or industrial development, etc., they release the carbon dioxide (which trees have been storing) as greenhouse gas and in turn increases the risk of climate change.
As a wide area maintaining moisture for the planet Earth, it absorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, preventing greenhouse gases from being trapped in it, thus making our climate tolerable for human beings and helping maintain the atmosphere and prevent its destruction. Digital technology, including artificial intelligence, robotics and the Internet of Things, has also improved the design and production process. The moisture from the Amazon is important to rainfall and human well-being. AT the first UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972, wide publicity was given by the press to the participation of Indigenous peoples from Brazil, garbed in their colorful traditional attire, articulating their request for, among others, payment by the rest of the world for their efforts at maintaining the "lungs of the earth" - the Amazon rainforest.