Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of ecosystems. Forests do not merely receive rain. They help generate it, regulate its distribution, and sustain the conditions that allow it […]
I’ve been mentioning the Amazon aerial rivers for years, and the biotic pump: they also help cool down the climate https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/forest-modeling-misses-the-water-for-the-carbon-qa-with-antonio-nobre-anastassia-makarieva/
The entrepreneurs and other settlers destroying the Amazon now will end up [dying] in a large desert.