Ekka Thanks for the post. Slowly but surely we are messing out our habitat in some places in large scale (such as the deforestation by fires) in the Amazons and Orinoco River Basins in order to create cattle ranches. The short term "benefits" to the rancher are short lived when too poor, shallow soils are washed away with the strong rains and they have to repeat the same burning and clearing of the remaining forest to enlarge the areas their cattle can graze on. In the mean time the temps continue to raise, the drought continues to be more extreme (Australia, Georgia and California as examples) and our president continues to say that humans do not have global impact on the environment.
