Episode
The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
1:03:09
Published: Tue Feb 28 2023
Description
If you’ve ever thought, “What’s the Amazon rainforest ever done for me? Nothin, that’s what,” then you’re dead wrong, friend. It covers 1 percent of the Earth’s surface but houses perhaps 30 percent of its species and it’s invaluable to all life on Earth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Amazon Rainforest used to be home to large groups of people building roads and complex structures, and it has been evolving for over 11 million years from savannas to the dense rainforest it is today.
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The Amazon rainforest has a diverse range of life divided up vertically from the tops of the trees down to the forest floors, with about 10% of known species residing there and 30% of land walking species.
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Summary
The Amazon rainforest has a diverse range of life divided up vertically from the tops of the trees down to the forest floors, with about 10% of known species residing there and 30% of land walking species.
EpisodeThe Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
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This podcast discusses the preservation of the Amazon rainforest through the handover of control to indigenous groups, and explains how there is more technology and life in the Amazon than most people think.
20:52 - 26:31 (05:39)
Summary
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EpisodeThe Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
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The Amazon rainforest is worth preserving for its biodiversity as well as the ecological benefits it provides humans, including drinking water purification, waste decomposition, and disease control.
26:34 - 1:00:27 (33:53)
Summary
The Amazon rainforest is worth preserving for its biodiversity as well as the ecological benefits it provides humans, including drinking water purification, waste decomposition, and disease control. Strategies to protect the Amazon include promoting sustainable economic practices like ecotourism and seeking contributions from wealthy nations to preserve this global common good.
EpisodeThe Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
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