ChatterBank1 min ago
Amazon Rainforest
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This story has popped up quite a few times on my FB newsfeed over the past few days. Has it been discussed on AB - maybe I've missed it.
"When Notre Dame was burning, the world's media covered every moment of it and billionaires rushed to restore it. Right now, the Amazon is burning - the lungs of our planet - it has been burning for 3 weeks no. No media coverage. No Billionaires."
"The Amazon rainforest that provides 20% of the world's oxygen and home to 3 million species of plants and animals has been burning for three weeks without media coverage."
Why would the media not cover this story?
"When Notre Dame was burning, the world's media covered every moment of it and billionaires rushed to restore it. Right now, the Amazon is burning - the lungs of our planet - it has been burning for 3 weeks no. No media coverage. No Billionaires."
"The Amazon rainforest that provides 20% of the world's oxygen and home to 3 million species of plants and animals has been burning for three weeks without media coverage."
Why would the media not cover this story?
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it's an unfair comparison. when notre dame burned, it occurred in the centre of a major city, witnessed by the city's population and the media residing there. Amazonia is hundreds of miles from any comparable centre of population and it's taken several weeks for the scale of the problem to be appreciated. now it is, the situation in Amazonia is being widely reported.
and no billionaire or any amount of his money will have any effect on Amazonia while bolsonaro is president and his less-than-environmental policies hold sway. they only way anyone can make a difference is international pressure and in that respect, the EU is doing absolutely the right thing.
and no billionaire or any amount of his money will have any effect on Amazonia while bolsonaro is president and his less-than-environmental policies hold sway. they only way anyone can make a difference is international pressure and in that respect, the EU is doing absolutely the right thing.
it was in the newspapers a while ago, naomi, months after the fire
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I can't find any more recent reports saying the situation has changed.
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I can't find any more recent reports saying the situation has changed.
why do I believe billionaires have pledged, rather than given ?
because they are billionaires
and they wouldnt have a lot of money if they gave it away
also this:
"The French billionaire Bernard Arnault promised on Tuesday to donate €200m (£170m), hours after his longstanding rival François Pinault, announced he was giving €100m.
The Bettencourt family, will contribute €200m, the energy group Total €100m, and the brothers Martin and Olivier Bouygues announced a personal donation of €10m, as did an American couple, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis
complicated all this .....
because they are billionaires
and they wouldnt have a lot of money if they gave it away
also this:
"The French billionaire Bernard Arnault promised on Tuesday to donate €200m (£170m), hours after his longstanding rival François Pinault, announced he was giving €100m.
The Bettencourt family, will contribute €200m, the energy group Total €100m, and the brothers Martin and Olivier Bouygues announced a personal donation of €10m, as did an American couple, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis
complicated all this .....
I know this is the Sun lol... but I have seen it reported a lot.
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