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If a Tree Falls in the Amazon...
Dr. Carlos Nobre of the Brazilian Institute of Space Research asked what effect deforestation in the Amazon rainforest might have on the climate of Brazil, and his answers have not been encouraging. He’ll describe how close the Amazon is to a “tipping point” moment when damage to the environment is so severe that it pushes the ecosystem into an irreversible cycle of self-destruction. Then Paula Moreira of the Climate Change Programme at the Amazon Institute of Environmental Research will explain what Brazil is doing to manage climate change, and why the country with the largest area of tropical forest in the world would oppose the Kyoto Protocol.
Weigh in: What are you doing to save the rainforest?
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