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Hello and welcome to more or less, the programme that places a statistical take measure up against

anything that'll keep still for long enough, which this week doesn't seem to include Westminster.

So instead, we'll look at why I can't have a pet dinosaur. Apparently there's more than one

reason. It claims that the UK State pension is a tiny fraction of average income,

and at the widely reported story that Americans consume the equivalent of more than 800 burgers a year,

and yes, that is supposed to be per American. But first, the news over the last couple of weeks

has been full of reports about the fires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

They're known as the planet's lungs, the organ through which the world breathes.

Wildfires have been raging in the Amazon rainforest.

World leaders and the Pope are weighing in as we see new images of the devastation.

It's just shard of earth as far as the eye can see. This is absolutely devastating.

The raging fires in the Amazon rainforest.

Each minute, chipping away at the forest known as the lungs of the earth, responsible for 20% of the world's oxygen.

Some common themes there, devastation, the lungs of the world, 20% of our oxygen passes through

the rainforest, and a number of listeners have pointed at some of the other statistical claims

that have been thrown around. There has been an 84% increase in fires since last year.

10% of the air that we breathe here in London is actually passing through the Amazonian rainforest.

They were the MPs did Robrock and Diane Abbott speaking on radio for any questions.

So what do we know? Are those claims true? And more importantly, what is going on in the rainforest

and to what extent can we quantify it? We found someone who's made it his business to study

the Amazon rainforest for more than 30 years. My name is Dan Nebstead, I'm the Executive Director

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