“At least five years ago, the environmentalists’ greed for the Cerrado intensified,” noted Ricardo Felício, a master in meteorology and doctoral professor of climatology at the University of São Paulo.
“As soon as they observed the enormous prosperity that the region of this biome presented for agriculture, the attacks, armed with pseudoscience and myths, took on an overwhelming proportion.”
“The goal is to do everything first to inhibit and then knock down all the potential the area represents.”
ECOTERRORISTS AGAINST AGRICULTURE
“In the second week of May, the target was the Cerrado.”
“According to ‘experts’ heard by reports propagated by the old press, water in Brazil would end because of agricultural production in this biome.”
“In reality, a fraudulent statement of this kind deserves to be classified, at the very least, as terrorism.”
“It propagates unfounded fear, aiming to curtail the productive forces of the region, to frighten the country, to defame the work of those who struggle day after day, and to help promote more insane bills in a Brazil that already has about 66% of its area blocked for human activities.”
“Not to mention the murder of climate and geographic science.”
“Of the atrocities that we must put up with from ‘experts’ who aim to preach ideological discourse with statements that border on the ridiculous, we have the inclusion of ‘ecocide’ (a word that does not even exist in the lexicon) that the Cerrado vegetation controls the rainfall regime, including in the southern states of Brazil and that this would bring an electrical blackout.”
“As if the nonsense that trees in the Amazon make rain in the Southeast was not enough, they want us to believe that the Cerrado vegetation controls precipitation and rivers in the South of Brazil.”
“Vegetation is dependent on the climate and its elements.”
‘Temperature and rainfall totals, especially the latter, are the most determining parameters for the type and density of the vegetation mass that surrounds the regions of the globe.’
‘This is consolidated science used by renowned meteorologists and climatologists for more than a century, such as Julius von Hann, Wladimir Köppen, Rudolf Geiger, and Augustin Candolle, for whom one of the atmospheric tracers used to make climate classifications was vegetation.”
‘In other words, the vegetation of the Amazon biome is that way because of the predominance of its climate.”
“Similarly, the Cerrado presents itself with its peculiar characteristics because the climate acting over its area allows it to do so.”
With information from Revista Oeste
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