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t's unfortunate that so many "#environmentalists" are Narrative Zombie ECO-PHONIES, who only care about the eco-#narrative of the day. I remember when these swine said that [rain] #forests were the lungs of the #Earth, when saving #trees was the eco-narrative du jour. Now that DESTROYING forests/trees and #farmland to build wind & solar farms has replaced the save-the-trees narrative, #oceans are said to be the lungs of the Earth. When were the eco-phonies LYING then or now? Forests serve other purposes also: they scrub TOXINS from the air, and they provide habitats & food for animals & indigenous peoples. Peter Clack @ PeterDClack X Over the past fifty years, the world has **lost an area of Amazon Rainforest roughly the size of India** That's equivalent to Uruguay every 5–7 years since 1970. Much of it is now baked laterite clay, as hard as concrete — and nothing can grow there now. Around 1.3–1.5 million km², or 20–24% of the original 6.7 million km², is gone — along with 10% of Earth's known species: 40,000 plants, 3,000 freshwater fish, 1,300 birds, 427 mammals and millions of insects (most are still unnamed). The main drivers are expanding cattle ranching (70-80%), soy and palm plantations, illegal logging, mining and roads cut through the forest, like the Trans-Amazon Highway. High-value hardwoods already vanish by the millions of cubic metres, but so does balsa for wind turbines. Between 2015 and 2025, an area of 20–25 million hectares was stripped in the western Amazon — much of it illegally. A single 100-metre blade consumes 150 m³ (cubic meters) of ancient forest. This 'balsa fever' has devastated watersheds in Ecuador and Peru, hitting protected areas and indigenous territories, feeding factories in China, Europe and the US. Degradation and new frontiers in Bolivia and Peru keep the pressure on. Scientists warn that at 20–25% lost, large parts of the Amazon can flip irreversibly to dry savanna. Every new turbine blade now carries a hidden Amazon invoice. That's the price of tragedy.