The Amazon Rainforest Is Burning and You Can Help: Stop Eating Beef
The time for change is right now
I’m heartbroken. The Amazon Rainforest — an ancient source of life for the planet — is going up in flames. On Monday Aug. 19, the residents of Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, were frightened by plumes of dark smoke from wildfires in the rainforest. This smoke lasted for more than an hour, plunging the sky into darkness at only 3 p.m, according to local news.
News like this can make you feel hopeless, but there is something you can do: boycott beef.
But let’s back up a bit first, and explain why the Amazon is so important to all of our lives.
This crisis didn’t start on Aug. 19. According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Amazon rainforest has seen an 83% increase in wildfires since 2018. The rainforest is supposed to be fireproof, but human activity and business interests push nature to seemingly impossible limits.
And Indigenous Brazilians have been at the forefront, protecting the “Lungs of the Planet,” despite the danger they face.
