Drought in the Amazon River
Thursday November 11
By: Nigel Pitman
APES in the News
The Amazon River is currently drying up, in fact the worst drought in the 108 years of recording droughts is currently occurring in the Amazon Basin. These low rivers have effects on other environments such as the icebergs. Also they are detrimental to the people that depend on the river. The river is a valuable source of food, water, and transportation to the people who depend on it. This article has some bias because the writer studies the rivers and their environment. He believes in climate change. There are a lot of his personal feelings shown through literary techniques like imagery. This deals with chapter 7 biodiversity, and chapter 19-climate change. This is a problem because the river is so important to many people.
This river is so vital to the people who live in the surrounding areas and without it they will lose so much. The author believes that this has to deal with climate and temperature rising but it could have a lot of factors that are making this happen.
ReplyDeleteIt is humans fault that the river is drying up, because we do not think about the fact that you can never just affect one thing. Climate change comes from global warming, stemming from pollution and overuse of resources. The drying of the Amazon River is the beginning of extremely detrimental effects of our oblivion to what we use. If the Amazon River continues to dry, the animals that live in it will not survive, affecting business and other cycles. It will also harm the surrounding area's land and the people who depend on it for supplies. I think just by writing the article, the author is showing bias because this article proves in no way to be a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThe Amazon river is the largest river in the world, and it is incredibly important to electric power, trade, and other resources that South American countries depend on. Even if this dry spell is just in Peru, the effects could be tremendous. Although climate change may be a major factor in the drought that it is causing this problem, I hope scientists are looking for other causes that are more easily fixed.
ReplyDeleteArticles like this one really point out the importance of the Amazon River. To the people of the world today it has always been something that has just existed and we have never really worried about its disappearing in our generation. Our generation today needs to take charge and find a solution that doesn't completely change another society. Yes, it may in fact be global warming or it may just be a freak dry spell, but as the educated race we are we need to try to do something to help. This is such a vital part of so many cultures and with out it the world would be a different place.
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