MSNBC MSNBC Live With Katy Tur August 22, 2019 18:40:00
This year there have been almost 73,000 fires since january. 83% more than the same period from 2018. give us a big picture perspective. how bad is it? >> it's really bad. incredible damage to an ecosystem that we all depend. on not just brazil. not just the other nine countries that expand but all of us require this forest. scientists are saying this is not a function of a change of precipitation even though climate change obviously fans the flames of many wildfires. it seems to have to do with the man on the ground who has openly during the campaign said that opening the amazon to deforestat...
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