Brazilians Andreas Kisser, Kiko Loureiro , and João Gordo , as well as international artists like Slash and Lzzy Hale , have expressed their concern about the fires that have been raging in the Amazon in recent days.
The forest has been on fire for days, and the media only started reporting on it when the issue gained significant traction on social media. See some of the posts below.
Brazil is on fire and you're all making excuses for it..
Smoke from wildfires in Rondônia and Amazonas is already visible from NASA satellite | Rondônia | G1 https://t.co/VXztT7hZNt
— Marcelo D2 (@Marcelodedois) August 21, 2019
This saddens me in a way. https://t.co/WorqIedbKT
— Lucas Silveira (@lucasfresno) August 22, 2019
Slash: Repost from the profile @naturre “#PrayForAmazonia is the hashtag used on social media to demand action to stop the fire that has been burning the Amazon for the last 16 days. NASA satellites warned that flames were consuming the forest that is considered the lungs of the world. Due to global warming, fires occur during certain periods of the year. But they warned that there are four months left until the end of 2019 and this is already considered one of the worst fires in the last seven years (…) But in Brazil the problem, in addition to global warming, also comes from deforestation, which has worsened since the election of Jair Bolsonaro. CNN reported that the fire is spreading rapidly, approximately one and a half football stadiums are burned in just one minute.”
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm): “Doing my part to help raise awareness. Because it’s real, and it goes beyond gender, generation, political party, race, culture, etc. This is our greatest source of life on this planet. I don’t have the answer to how to solve this… But I know that if we make enough noise… We will find a way to heal our planet.”
Gojira: “The Amazon, the largest rainforest on the planet, the lungs of the world that create 20% of the Earth's oxygen, has been burning for 16 days straight and there is literally NO media coverage of it. Why?”
Garbage: “Save the Amazon and support the guardians of the forest. Sign the petition now and protect the lands of indigenous peoples and traditional communities.”
SAVE THE AMAZON and stand with the forest guardians. Sign the petition now and protect the lands of Indigenous and traditional communities. https://t.co/y1gaZbePvw
— Garbage (@garbage) August 22, 2019