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“In 2017, China abruptly announced that it would no longer accept large quantities of plastic waste from rich nations like the United States. At the time, China was importing $18 worth of solid waste. China’s rejection of waste was part of a broader health and environmental problem.”

“In almost all grocery lists of man’s environmental problems is found an item regarding oxygen supply. Fortunately for mankind, the supply is not vanishing as some have predicted.”

Researchers have found that the production of beef in Brazil is at less than half of its potential, which could be massively reduced. Brazil’s lesser known Atlantic Forest,far more of which has been lost than the Amazon, could benefit enormously.”
“There is enough land for large scale restoration of the Atlantic Forest, the “the hottest of hotspots...

Agribusiness is 25% of Brazil’sGDP and its what got the country thru recession,” said Nepstad. When soy farming comes into a landscape, the number of fires goes down. Little towns get money for schools and, GDP rises, and inequality declines. This is not a sector to beat up on, it’s one to find common ground with.

“Its bullshit.” Dan Nepstad, IPCC

According to an Oxford Univ. ecologist who studies them, Amazon plants consume about 60% of the oxygen they produce in respiration, the biochemical process whereby they obtain energy. Microbes which break down rainforest biomass, consume the other 40%. So, in all practical terms, the net contribution of the Amazon ECOSYSTEM to the world’s oxygen supply is effectively zero.

Pielke then shows normalized hurricane losses for the same period. Normalized means that Pielke and his coauthors adjusted the damage datato account for the massive development of America’s coastlines, like Miami’s since 1900. Once this is done there is no trend of rising costs.

The experts agreed in their unanimous Hohenkammer Statement that climate change is real and humans are contributing to it significantly. but they also agreed that more people and property in harm’s way explained the rising cost of natural disasters, not worsening disasters.