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In my  previous post about the Amazon Fires  I wrote about how the fires would affect our health directly. Due to the pollutants being released into the air thus forcing use to inhale this pollutants into our system. As anyone would of guessed it is not good for our bodies and are extremely harmful. City of Brazil, Cao Paolo, blacked by pollutants from the Amazon Rainforst Fire. I posted this image in order to prove to you my concerns of Brazil and neighboring countries. Millions of people are forced to inhale all of that every day. Pollutants are expected to aggravate heart disease and inflammation, nerve disorder and even cancer.  CNN reports  there's been a spike in the number of breathing problems and hospitalizations among children in Brazil. Children are among the first to be affected due to their developing bodies. In May and June about 5 000 children were hospitalized for each month. That's 10 000 children in 2 months of the fire burning. Imagine Jul...

Our lungs were on fire and it didn’t reach the media until weeks after ranging fires continued. The Amazon Rainforest is home to millions of species and hundreds of tribes yet didn’t get a lot of media coverage. Yes, the Amazon gets thousands of fires every year especially in the dry season but this one was different. This one completely wiped out a large part of the forest. It is important for people to be aware of the fire, the destruction it brought and how to help. Causes One might ask what’s so different about this fire if fires in the Amazon are common especially during the dry season. Well, the regulations were put into place in 1988 in order to prevent deforestation which causes a spike in fires as well as to protect the indigenous tribes. In 2008 regulations were placed to protect the forest even further. Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, loosened those regulations that protected certain areas the Amazon from deforestation. Now allowing activities such as mining,...