New research in the journal Science
has studied the last two droughts and their implications.
In a typical year, the forest
absorbs about 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide,
a very useful source.
But in the
2005 drought,
the dying trees released 5 billion tonnes of CO2,
and last year, 8 billion tonnes.
Now,
to put that in context,
America emitted 5.4 billion tonnes burning fossil fuels in 2009.
So the Amazon really matters.
Don't kill the rainforest.
Don't you kill the rainforest.
One tree dies, nature cries.
Humans live by courtesy.
Off the earth,
a green cover.
Let's evacuate the atmosphere.
Without it,
we couldn't survive.
The forest lives much longer than all the humans do.
We lived in perfect harmony before we started cutting wood.
Don't kill the rainforest.
Don't you kill the rainforest.
One tree dies, nature cries.
Don't kill the rainforest.
50,000 trees are dying
every minute.
Not turn along and wait.
We're destroying our own life system.
Here in Gereneria,
as big as the FOIG,
once these plants are gone,
they will be
gone forever.
Don't kill the rainforest.
Don't you kill the rainforest.
One tree dies, nature cries.
Don't kill the rainforest.
But Mother Nature takes revenge.
The desert soil is growing.
The temperature is rising.
And the melt of all the ice.
We've got to stop this mass killing.
Mother Nature, it feeds us.
And we're destroying her.
But one thing is certain.
With nature,
nothing will survive.
Watch nature,
not rule survive.
Yeah.
Don't kill the rainforest.
Don't you kill the rainforest.
One tree dies, nature cries.
Don't kill the rainforest.
Don't kill, kill the rain, rainforest.
Don't you kill the rain, rainforest.
One tree dies, nature cries.
Don't, don't kill, kill the rain,
rainforest.
Don't you kill the rain, rainforest.
One tree dies, nature cries.
Don't kill the rainforest.
Don't,
don't kill the rainforest.
Rainforest.
Don't kill the rainforest.