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WHY IS THE AMAZON
RAINFOREST IMPORTANT

    South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third
of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite
covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the
Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the wildlife
[5] species we know about – and probably a lot that we
don’t know yet.
    Our research shows that, on average, a ‘new’
species of animal or plant is being discovered in the
Amazon every other day. However, tragically, becau-

[10] se huge parts of the rainforest are being destroyed
so fast, we may never know all the riches it holds.
    The Amazon is of vital importance because people
around the world, as well as locally, depend on the
rainforest. Not just for food, water, wood and medici-

[15] nes, but to help stabilise the climate – 150-200 billion
tonnes of carbon is stored in the Amazon rainforest.
The trees in the Amazon also release 20 billion tonnes
of water into the atmosphere per day, playing a critical
role in global and regional carbon and water cycles.
[20]     The Amazon is under siege like never before.
Deforestation and fires remain dangerously high,
and protected areas and Indigenous lands face in-

creasing threats. It needs our help more than ever.
We cannot tackle the climate crisis without the
[25] Amazon’s vital life-sustaining role.

Fonte: WWF. Why is the Amazon rainforest important. In: WWF. The Amazon rainforest. Publicado em: Disponível em: https://www. wwf.org.uk/where-we-work/amazon. Acesso em: 16 out. 2023.

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WHY IS THE AMAZON
RAINFOREST IMPORTANT

    South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third
of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite
covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the
Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the wildlife
[5] species we know about – and probably a lot that we
don’t know yet.
    Our research shows that, on average, a ‘new’
species of animal or plant is being discovered in the
Amazon every other day. However, tragically, becau-

[10] se huge parts of the rainforest are being destroyed
so fast, we may never know all the riches it holds.
    The Amazon is of vital importance because people
around the world, as well as locally, depend on the
rainforest. Not just for food, water, wood and medici-

[15] nes, but to help stabilise the climate – 150-200 billion
tonnes of carbon is stored in the Amazon rainforest.
The trees in the Amazon also release 20 billion tonnes
of water into the atmosphere per day, playing a critical
role in global and regional carbon and water cycles.
[20]     The Amazon is under siege like never before.
Deforestation and fires remain dangerously high,
and protected areas and Indigenous lands face in-

creasing threats. It needs our help more than ever.
We cannot tackle the climate crisis without the
[25] Amazon’s vital life-sustaining role.

Fonte: WWF. Why is the Amazon rainforest important. In: WWF. The Amazon rainforest. Publicado em: Disponível em: https://www. wwf.org.uk/where-we-work/amazon. Acesso em: 16 out. 2023.

WHAT IS LIFE?

The magazine Philosophy Now asked two people, Tom Baranski and Courtney Walsh, to define what life is.

Tom Baranski from Somerset, New Jersey, believes that life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts,
reacts, evaluates and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism). The crucial difference
between life and non-life (or non-living things) is that life uses energy for physical and conscious
development. Life is anything that grows and eventually dies, ceases to proliferate and be cognizant. Can
[5] we say that viruses, for example, are cognizant? Yes, insofar as they react to stimuli; but they are alive
essentially because they reproduce and grow. Computers are non-living because even though they can
cognize, they do not develop biologically (grow) and cannot produce offspring. It is not cognition that
determines life: it is rather proliferation and maturation towards a state of death; and death occurs only to
living substances.

[10] Or is the question “What is the meaning (purpose) of life?” that is a real tough one? But Tom Baranski
thinks that the meaning of life is the ideals we impose upon it, what we demand of it. The meaning of life
is to: Do good, Be Good, but also to Receive Good. The foggy term in this advice, of course, is “good”; but
he leaves that to the intuitive powers that we all share.

There are, of course, many intuitively clear examples of Doing Good. Most of us would avoid murdering;
[15] and most of us would refrain from other acts we find intuitively wrong. So our natural intuitions determine
the meaning of life for us; and it seems for other species as well, for those intuitions resonate through
much of life and give it its purpose.

On the other hand, Courtney Walsh from Farnborough, Hampshire, defines life as the eternal and
unbroken flow of infinite rippling simultaneous events that by a fortuitous chain has led to this universe
[20] of elements we are all suspended in, that has somehow led to this present experience of sentient existence.
Animal life (excluding that of humans) shows that life is a simple matter of being, by means of a modest
routine of eating, sleeping and reproducing. Animals balance their days between these necessities, doing
only what their bodies ask of them. The life of vegetation is not far from that of animals. They eat and
sleep and reproduce in their own way, for the same result. So life is a beautiful and naturally harmonious
[25] borrowing of energy.

Yet we have taken it for granted. We have lost the power to simply be happy eating, sleeping, reproducing,
believing we need a reason to be alive, a purpose and a goal to reach, so that on our deathbeds (something
we have been made to fear) we can look back and tell ourselves we have done something with our lives.
Life has lost its purpose because we have tried to give it one. The truth is that we are no more significant
[30] than the sand by the sea or the clouds in the sky. No more significant. But as significant.

No matter what your race, religion or gender, when you first step outside your door in the morning and
feel the fresh air in your lungs and the morning sun on your face, you close your eyes and smile. In that
moment you are feeling life as it should be.

Adaptado de philosophynow.org.

WHAT IS LIFE?

The magazine Philosophy Now asked two people, Tom Baranski and Courtney Walsh, to define what life is.

Tom Baranski from Somerset, New Jersey, believes that life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts,
reacts, evaluates and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism). The crucial difference
between life and non-life (or non-living things) is that life uses energy for physical and conscious
development. Life is anything that grows and eventually dies, ceases to proliferate and be cognizant. Can
[5] we say that viruses, for example, are cognizant? Yes, insofar as they react to stimuli; but they are alive
essentially because they reproduce and grow. Computers are non-living because even though they can
cognize, they do not develop biologically (grow) and cannot produce offspring. It is not cognition that
determines life: it is rather proliferation and maturation towards a state of death; and death occurs only to
living substances.

[10] Or is the question “What is the meaning (purpose) of life?” that is a real tough one? But Tom Baranski
thinks that the meaning of life is the ideals we impose upon it, what we demand of it. The meaning of life
is to: Do good, Be Good, but also to Receive Good. The foggy term in this advice, of course, is “good”; but
he leaves that to the intuitive powers that we all share.

There are, of course, many intuitively clear examples of Doing Good. Most of us would avoid murdering;
[15] and most of us would refrain from other acts we find intuitively wrong. So our natural intuitions determine
the meaning of life for us; and it seems for other species as well, for those intuitions resonate through
much of life and give it its purpose.

On the other hand, Courtney Walsh from Farnborough, Hampshire, defines life as the eternal and
unbroken flow of infinite rippling simultaneous events that by a fortuitous chain has led to this universe
[20] of elements we are all suspended in, that has somehow led to this present experience of sentient existence.
Animal life (excluding that of humans) shows that life is a simple matter of being, by means of a modest
routine of eating, sleeping and reproducing. Animals balance their days between these necessities, doing
only what their bodies ask of them. The life of vegetation is not far from that of animals. They eat and
sleep and reproduce in their own way, for the same result. So life is a beautiful and naturally harmonious
[25] borrowing of energy.

Yet we have taken it for granted. We have lost the power to simply be happy eating, sleeping, reproducing,
believing we need a reason to be alive, a purpose and a goal to reach, so that on our deathbeds (something
we have been made to fear) we can look back and tell ourselves we have done something with our lives.
Life has lost its purpose because we have tried to give it one. The truth is that we are no more significant
[30] than the sand by the sea or the clouds in the sky. No more significant. But as significant.

No matter what your race, religion or gender, when you first step outside your door in the morning and
feel the fresh air in your lungs and the morning sun on your face, you close your eyes and smile. In that
moment you are feeling life as it should be.

Adaptado de philosophynow.org.

WHAT IS LIFE?

The magazine Philosophy Now asked two people, Tom Baranski and Courtney Walsh, to define what life is.

Tom Baranski from Somerset, New Jersey, believes that life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts,
reacts, evaluates and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism). The crucial difference
between life and non-life (or non-living things) is that life uses energy for physical and conscious
development. Life is anything that grows and eventually dies, ceases to proliferate and be cognizant. Can
[5] we say that viruses, for example, are cognizant? Yes, insofar as they react to stimuli; but they are alive
essentially because they reproduce and grow. Computers are non-living because even though they can
cognize, they do not develop biologically (grow) and cannot produce offspring. It is not cognition that
determines life: it is rather proliferation and maturation towards a state of death; and death occurs only to
living substances.

[10] Or is the question “What is the meaning (purpose) of life?” that is a real tough one? But Tom Baranski
thinks that the meaning of life is the ideals we impose upon it, what we demand of it. The meaning of life
is to: Do good, Be Good, but also to Receive Good. The foggy term in this advice, of course, is “good”; but
he leaves that to the intuitive powers that we all share.

There are, of course, many intuitively clear examples of Doing Good. Most of us would avoid murdering;
[15] and most of us would refrain from other acts we find intuitively wrong. So our natural intuitions determine
the meaning of life for us; and it seems for other species as well, for those intuitions resonate through
much of life and give it its purpose.

On the other hand, Courtney Walsh from Farnborough, Hampshire, defines life as the eternal and
unbroken flow of infinite rippling simultaneous events that by a fortuitous chain has led to this universe
[20] of elements we are all suspended in, that has somehow led to this present experience of sentient existence.
Animal life (excluding that of humans) shows that life is a simple matter of being, by means of a modest
routine of eating, sleeping and reproducing. Animals balance their days between these necessities, doing
only what their bodies ask of them. The life of vegetation is not far from that of animals. They eat and
sleep and reproduce in their own way, for the same result. So life is a beautiful and naturally harmonious
[25] borrowing of energy.

Yet we have taken it for granted. We have lost the power to simply be happy eating, sleeping, reproducing,
believing we need a reason to be alive, a purpose and a goal to reach, so that on our deathbeds (something
we have been made to fear) we can look back and tell ourselves we have done something with our lives.
Life has lost its purpose because we have tried to give it one. The truth is that we are no more significant
[30] than the sand by the sea or the clouds in the sky. No more significant. But as significant.

No matter what your race, religion or gender, when you first step outside your door in the morning and
feel the fresh air in your lungs and the morning sun on your face, you close your eyes and smile. In that
moment you are feeling life as it should be.

Adaptado de philosophynow.org.

WHAT IS LIFE?

The magazine Philosophy Now asked two people, Tom Baranski and Courtney Walsh, to define what life is.

Tom Baranski from Somerset, New Jersey, believes that life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts,
reacts, evaluates and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism). The crucial difference
between life and non-life (or non-living things) is that life uses energy for physical and conscious
development. Life is anything that grows and eventually dies, ceases to proliferate and be cognizant. Can
[5] we say that viruses, for example, are cognizant? Yes, insofar as they react to stimuli; but they are alive
essentially because they reproduce and grow. Computers are non-living because even though they can
cognize, they do not develop biologically (grow) and cannot produce offspring. It is not cognition that
determines life: it is rather proliferation and maturation towards a state of death; and death occurs only to
living substances.

[10] Or is the question “What is the meaning (purpose) of life?” that is a real tough one? But Tom Baranski
thinks that the meaning of life is the ideals we impose upon it, what we demand of it. The meaning of life
is to: Do good, Be Good, but also to Receive Good. The foggy term in this advice, of course, is “good”; but
he leaves that to the intuitive powers that we all share.

There are, of course, many intuitively clear examples of Doing Good. Most of us would avoid murdering;
[15] and most of us would refrain from other acts we find intuitively wrong. So our natural intuitions determine
the meaning of life for us; and it seems for other species as well, for those intuitions resonate through
much of life and give it its purpose.

On the other hand, Courtney Walsh from Farnborough, Hampshire, defines life as the eternal and
unbroken flow of infinite rippling simultaneous events that by a fortuitous chain has led to this universe
[20] of elements we are all suspended in, that has somehow led to this present experience of sentient existence.
Animal life (excluding that of humans) shows that life is a simple matter of being, by means of a modest
routine of eating, sleeping and reproducing. Animals balance their days between these necessities, doing
only what their bodies ask of them. The life of vegetation is not far from that of animals. They eat and
sleep and reproduce in their own way, for the same result. So life is a beautiful and naturally harmonious
[25] borrowing of energy.

Yet we have taken it for granted. We have lost the power to simply be happy eating, sleeping, reproducing,
believing we need a reason to be alive, a purpose and a goal to reach, so that on our deathbeds (something
we have been made to fear) we can look back and tell ourselves we have done something with our lives.
Life has lost its purpose because we have tried to give it one. The truth is that we are no more significant
[30] than the sand by the sea or the clouds in the sky. No more significant. But as significant.

No matter what your race, religion or gender, when you first step outside your door in the morning and
feel the fresh air in your lungs and the morning sun on your face, you close your eyes and smile. In that
moment you are feeling life as it should be.

Adaptado de philosophynow.org.