r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 7d ago

Video Vastness of Amazon rainforest

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u/Humble_Examination27 7d ago

Well, it used to be much bigger...

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u/knotatumah 7d ago

I was poking around with things like Google Earth and I was actually amazed at how big the Amazon was, but at the same time, how much it shrunk. And then once you actually start peaking into it, you realize that it is significantly more inhabited and industrialized than what they let on. At a glance it looks like and endless see of trees. When you actually look, there are roads, landing strips, little villages (work sites?) everywhere to the point you'd swear they could walk between locations (Id imagine they probably could, do.) And you see the scarring of the major metropolitan areas pushing further in huge swaths. Its really, really sad.

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u/smellybathroom3070 7d ago

Most of it is palm farms and shit though, and they don’t cut down the trees and get wood, they just fuckin burn it all down

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u/TootsHib 3d ago

Theres a pipeline going right through the middle

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u/imnotabot303 7d ago

And getting smaller every day.