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Diego Saez Gil, Pachama & Sam Gill, Sylvera

Inevitable

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What's the Risk of Deforestation?

The Amazon rainforest is one of the largest carbon sinks in the world. It absorbs around two gigatons per year of CO2 absorption. But we humans have deforested getting close to 20% of the Amazon. And there's some tipping point there that we're not too far off of, up toward 25%, where all of a sudden it might become savanna.

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