{"id":818,"date":"2009-06-02T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2009-06-15T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T07:43:06","slug":"the-destruction-of-the-amazon-is-real-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-destruction-of-the-amazon-is-real-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"The destruction of the Amazon is real (in pictures)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are destroying the Amazon rain forest so that we can have cheap burgers.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/deforestation.php?src=eoa-ann\">slide show linked here<\/a> shows the rapid decimation of the ancient forest.  It takes centuries to regrow.  Without it our biosphere is made vulnerable to climate volatility.  It sounds like a foolish, short sighted trade-off doesn&#8217;t it?  (The solution?  Fewer humans ie stop making babies, and eat less meat.  Can you do it?)<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-title\">\n<h2>Amazon Deforestation<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"dateDisplay\" class=\"date\">July 30, 2000<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div id=\"slideshow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/deforestation.php?src=eoa-ann\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"series_image\" title=\"Amazon Deforestation\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20000730.jpg?resize=720%2C480\" alt=\"Amazon Deforestation\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><a id=\"0\" title=\"2000\" onclick=\"selectImage(0);\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/scripts\/timeseries.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar images = [new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20000730.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20000730_lrg.jpg\",\"July 30, 2000\",\"2000\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20010811.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20010811_lrg.jpg\",\"August 11, 2001\",\"2001\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20020711.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20020711_lrg.jpg\",\"July 11, 2002\",\"2002\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20030721.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20030721_lrg.jpg\",\"July 21, 2003\",\"2003\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20040801.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20040801_lrg.jpg\",\"August 1, 2004\",\"2004\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20050710.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20050710_lrg.jpg\",\"July 10, 2005\",\"2005\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20060717.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20060717_lrg.jpg\",\"July 17, 2006\",\"2006\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20070812.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20070812_lrg.jpg\",\"August 12, 2007\",\"2007\"),new TSImage(\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20080729.jpg\",\"images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20080729_lrg.jpg\",\"July 29, 2008\",\"2008\")];selectImage(0);\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n<p>July 28, 2008<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/deforestation.php?src=eoa-ann\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"2008\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/amazon\/amazon_deforestation_20080729.jpg?resize=720%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state of Rond\u00f4nia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. In the past three decades, clearing and degradation of the state\u2019s original 208,000 square kilometers of forest (about 51.4 million acres, an area slightly smaller than the state of Kansas) has been rapid: 4,200 square kilometers cleared by 1978; 30,000 by 1988; and 53,300 by 1998. By 2003, an estimated 67,764 square kilometers of rainforest\u2014an area larger than the state of West Virginia\u2014had been cleared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/deforestation.php?src=eoa-ann\">Read the full Earth Observatory article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are destroying the Amazon rain forest so that we can have cheap burgers. The slide show linked here shows the rapid decimation of the ancient forest. It takes centuries to regrow. Without it our biosphere is made vulnerable to climate volatility. It sounds like a foolish, short sighted trade-off doesn&#8217;t it? (The solution? Fewer &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-destruction-of-the-amazon-is-real-in-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The destruction of the Amazon is real (in pictures).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-dc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}