While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an "international crisis," they are hardly an accident.

And if saving the rainforest isn't enough to convince carnivores to stop eating Brazilian beef—the greenhouse gas emissions the cattle create may be.
A satellite image from NASA shows the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in August 2019.
While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an "international crisis," they are hardly an accident.
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