re: Carbon-14 dating shows only 12% of atmospheric CO2 added since 1750 is manmade

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I’m curious about this. What is going on in the Amazon? I didn’t realize there was a lot of urbanization and development going on there.

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Nature article

It is not for urbanization, but mostly for cattle farming- so hitting a daily double, though this is at least better than feedlots as far as methane production is concerned.

There has always been so much evil and corruption associated with the discovery and then the exploitation of this area. If you really want to know how damn awful humanity can be, just do some reading on the history of Amazonia. It can get nauseating pretty quickly.

There is also a pretty good read, The Prophet and the Wizard, about the history of environmentalism and how it has entered into the cultural conscious, but also how humanity deals with the problems.

I find it funny when people seem to think this is a win vs lose contest with Nature. We are all a part of Nature, and Nature is going to nature. All we can do is manipulate how long we can sustain the current societal norms. Maybe we can; maybe we can't. Maybe a massive supervolcano or asteroid wipes us out regardless.