Levi Novey: The Amazon Rainforest is More Important than Electric Cars

Levi Novey: The Amazon Rainforest is More Important than Electric Cars: "The facts are plain and simple. Deforestation accounts for 20%-25% of worldwide carbon emissions, whereas the global transportation sector currently accounts for the same amount if not less (15-20%). The Amazon Rainforest is one of the largest forests in the world, and arguably the most important. Nowhere else in the world is there more biodiversity among plants and animals. Did you know that approximately one in every 10 known species in the world lives in the Amazon? It also provides the world with 20% of its oxygen, and contains 20% of the world's freshwater. If that's not enough, 25% of all modern pharmaceutical drugs are derived from rainforest plants, and yet only about 1% have been studied, including those that might help fight cancer.

Since the Amazon Rainforest is so important, we must ask ourselves: 'Why have we (or at least the media) become so bored of discussing the Amazon and deforestation?'"