Leading climate scientists say the Amazon rainforest is at an irreversible tipping point. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president could push the rainforest to the tipping point within the next 2 years. Monica de Bolle, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC., says maintaining the current rate of deforestation would bring the Amazon “dangerously close to the estimated tipping point as soon as 2021 … beyond which the rainforest can no longer generate enough rain to sustain itself.”[1]… Read the rest