{"id":8428,"date":"2019-08-27T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2019-08-27T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:05:07","slug":"most-amazon-fires-burning-on-agricultural-land-where-forests-already-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/08\/27\/most-amazon-fires-burning-on-agricultural-land-where-forests-already-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate communications: Most Amazon fires burning on agricultural land where forests already cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Update mid October: Newer reports based on satellite imagery suggest that fires have been set to clear more forest land, likely for growing soy beans. Because the U.S. and China are involved in a trade dispute, Brazilian farmers have seen an opportunity to supply China with soy beans that are currently not available from U.S. farmers due to the trade disruption.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social media idiocy reached new highs of absurdity the past few days &#8211; the Amazon fire hysteria was a big fat social media scam. But it seems no one shouting on social media is hearing that message.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/24\/world\/americas\/amazon-rain-forest-fire-maps.html\">What Satellite Imagery Tells Us About the Amazon Rain Forest Fires &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8430\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Capture-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/08\/23\/social-media-has-gone-insane-over-fires-in-the-amazon-area-of-brazil-with-most-posts-being-wrong\/\">Social media has gone insane over fires in the Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a consequence of what was likely a combination of social media bots intentionally working to create social havoc, idiot celebrities and politicians fed the social media bon fire.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, in propaganda, the first message people receive is the one that will be remembered, even if countered by factual, contradictory messages later.<\/p>\n<p>Remember last December when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-aeromexico-drone-strike-20181214-story.html\">yellow journalism pseudo news ops plastered the world&#8217;s new<em>s with images of a collapsed nose cone on an Aeromexico plane landing at Tijuana, and blamed it on a drone?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one in any official capacity said it was caused by a drone. Pseudo news writers made that up. Exaggeration like that is called yellow journalism.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s the message every one remembers: <a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/drone\/expected-no-drone-ever-collided-boeing-737-mexico-official-investigation-378215\">It was later determined to have been caused by structural failure of the aircraft&#8217;s nose cone<\/a>. There was never any drone involved.<\/p>\n<p>But what does the public remember? How many people even saw the official correction?<\/p>\n<p>A relatively ordinary Amazon fire season, burning agriculture lands, not forests, is now remembered as Armageddon, destroying the earth&#8217;s oxygen, and going to cause all of us to die. Of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media idiocy reached new highs of absurdity the past few days &#8211; the Amazon fire hysteria was a big fat social media scam. But it seems no one shouting on social media is hearing that message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,26,39,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-communications","category-facts","category-lies","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}