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Thank you for joining us each week as we mind the brightest brains around for solutions to problems like climate change,

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I'm Ronald Young Jr.

It just looks at you're flying over a field of broccoli and there is nothing else.

That massive field is the Amazon rainforest,

stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela,

Guyana, French Guyana, and Suriname.

Sometimes called the lungs of the earth for its ability to absorb massive amounts of CO2 and produce oxygen, the Amazon now suffers from man-made fires and deforestation.

If somebody came to your backyard and started, you know, or you block and started cutting down

all the trees and bulldozing the sidewalk, I mean, you'd have the cops out there in a second. We'd never allow that.

The jungle is changing, as people increasingly view the Amazon as a resource for things like wood

and gold. And so bit by bit, day by day, they've just been chipping away at it.

People are cutting timber from rainforests. People are gold mining from rainforest.

Paul Rosalie is a conservationist and author.

In August 2019, he posted a video showing the results of the wildfires destroying the Amazon rainforests at that time.

It was viewed over 1.4 million times and received a lot of media attention.

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