PAUL ROSOLIE: We Lost 20% of The Amazon Rainforest

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[00:00:00]We've lost over 20% of the Amazon rainforest. And the reason that's so devastating right now is that the Amazon produces its own moisture. 20 trillion liters of water a day come off the canopy, form the cloud cover, and then the rain comes back down. If we remove too much of the trees, we lose that moisture cycle, that sacred cycle that's been going for millions of years before we got here that's made life on Earth possible, we are at risk of putting the Amazon rainforest past the tipping point where it dries out.

[00:00:29]>> Mhm.

[00:00:30]>> And then ceases to be the Amazon rainforest and turns into the burned, destroyed forest grassland where the Amazon used to be. And aside from losing species and the home for indigenous people and all the undiscovered medicines that we would have had, then we're going to throw the climate into sort of a post-apocalyptic reality.

[00:00:46]And I'm not a doomsday person. I'm a hope person. But this is like, man, don't mess with it.