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drymer · 56-60, M
The Amazon Rainforest is over 2 million square miles (over 5 million square kilometers). That's about half the size of the WHOLE USA. To say that "the Amazon Rainforest has been burning for 3 weeks" is stupid, inaccurate and just a way to manipulate, appealing to the emotions instead of stating objective facts. There is no way in hell that the "WHOLE" Amazon Rainforest "has been on fire" (as implied in the OP). Such a huge forest is bound to catch fire somewhere, but it's not like the whole thing is burning. I'm all for protecting the Amazon forest and suppressing any man-made fires within it, but I'm just sick and tired of all the manipulation of news from every corner, left, right, liberal, conservative, etc, etc... Can't we just stick to objective, non-misleading FACTS please...?
