Losing the Amazon

This article is old, but the news reported is still more than valid and worthy of attention.

We will soon lose most of the Amazon due to global warming:

Climate change could speed up the large-scale destruction of the Amazon rainforest and bring the "point of no return" much closer than previously thought, conservationists warned today.

Almost 60% of the region's forests could be wiped out or severely damaged by 2030, as a result of climate change and deforestation, according to a report published today by WWF.
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Destroying almost 60% of tropical rainforest by 2030 would do away with one of the key stabilisers of the global climate system, it warned.
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The report's author, Dan Nepstead, senior scientist at the Woods Hole research centre in Massachusetts, said: "The importance of the Amazon forest for the globe's climate cannot be underplayed.

"It's not only essential for cooling the world's temperature but such a large source of freshwater that it may be enough to influence some of the great ocean currents, and on top of that it's a massive store of carbon."

The reasons to save the Amazon seem endless, since this ancient forest influences the weather far beyond its confines, but we still do out best to destroy it it seems.

What our future looks like without the Amazon, apparently, only time will tell, and it won't take too long to find out.