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marcosdumay on Aug 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal

> It might be too late now.

Why this? Are you expecting some unavoidable global phenomenon to take the forest down?

myeviltwin on Aug 23, 2019 [–]

At certain levels of deforestation the Amazon rainforest ecosystem is believed to break down, turn into savannah:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaat2340

marcosdumay on Aug 23, 2019 | [–]

Those fires are way too localized to do something like this.

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