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<ul><li> The Earth’s Arctic region and the <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> rainforest are on fire all thanks to climate change.</li><li>The peripheries of the Northern Hemisphere are heating up twice as fast as the rest of the Earth while the Amazon has so many different wildfires brewing that the resulting smoke extends for 1.2 million square miles.</li><li>Wildfires in Alaska, Siberia, Russia and Greenland are releasing a record amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the <keyword id="2699268" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazonia">Amazonia</keyword> wildfires are burning up the ‘lungs of the planet’ — making a bad problem even worse.</li></ul>If you think that climate change is making your summers hotter, be thankful that you <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/A-devastating-Arctic-temperature-rise-that-could-submerge-coastal-cities-and-trigger-species-extinction-is-now-locked-in/articleshow/68430694.cms">don’t live in the Arctic</a> or in the Amazon.<br /><br />Amazonia — the entirety of the Amazon rainforest — has 10,000 separate wildfires that started <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/the-amazon-is-burning-at-a-rate-not-seen-since-we-started-keeping-track-the-smoke-is-reaching-cities-2000-miles-away-/articleshow/70778666.cms">burning this very week.</a> The collective smoke from the wildfires created a layer of smoke that stretches for over 1.2 million square million darkening skies over the South American continent.<br /><br />
	
	
	
	
	
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<br />In the northern hemisphere, the entire region — stretching from Siberia all the way to Alaska — is heating up <a href="https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2013BAMSStateoftheClimate.1">twice as fast</a> as the rest of the Earth. It’s gotten so hot that it’s literally on fire. <br />
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<br />It’s not that wildfires are uncommon in the Arctic region, in fact they happen every summer. But this time around, even the The World Meteorological Organisation (<a href="https://twitter.com/WMO/status/1149656340685447168">WMO</a>) called it ‘unprecedented’ noting that its monitoring service, CAMS, has tracked over 100 wildfires in the Arctic Circle.<br />
  
  
  
  
  
  
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In both cases, the burning infernos have gotten so out of hand that you can see even see the wildfires from space.<br /><br />
	
  
  
  
  
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<br /><strong>The lungs of the planet</strong><br /><br />The Amazon rainforest has been dubbed the ‘lungs of the planet’ since its innate vastness — 5.4 million square kilometers — produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. <br /><br /><br />And, right now, since its burning instead of breathing — it’s producing carbon dioxide and other harmful gases instead.<br /><br />
  
  
  
  
  
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<br />The record breaking wildfires come in the footsteps of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point">The Guardian</a> reporting that the Amazon shrunk by 1,345 square kilometers in the month of July — twice the area of a city like Tokyo.<br /><br />The area of around three football fields was disappearing every minute according to data from <a href="http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/app/dashboard/alerts/legal/amazon/aggregated/#">Brazilian satellites</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Earth’s cushion against climate change on the brink of collapse<br /></strong><br />Aside endangering wildlife and their habitats, the fires released an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/carbon-dioxide-levels-highest-in-human-history/articleshow/69318790.cms">exorbitant amount of carbon dioxide. </a><br /><br />In June alone, fires in the Arctic released over 50 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere, according to the WMO — the same as Sweden’s emissions over a whole year.<br />
  
  
  
  
  
  
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<a href="https://twitter.com/m_parrington/status/1153224477205028864">Mark Parrington</a>, a senior scientist with Europe’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring service, notes that since then, carbon dioxide released from fires in the Arctic has reached 100 megatons — breaking previous records.<br /><br /><strong>It affects you even if you don’t live on the North Pole<br /></strong><br />The impact of these fires is crossing borders. <br /><br />Russia, for instance, is the victim of the smoke plumes degrading the air quality in some of its cities according to NASA’s <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145355/wildfire-smoke-swirls-over-russia">Earth Observatory</a>. <br /><br />
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Permafrost, or peat, in the region stores a lot of the carbon dioxide that’s released on Earth. While the peat isn’t in the direct line of fire — no pun intended — it’s still left will less cover against direct sunlight. This increases the odds of it <a href="https://news.nau.edu/schuur-carbon-permafrost-study/#.XRz2_OhKjRY">thawing out</a> and releasing all of its stored carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.<br /><br />
	
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<br />The situation in Brazil is as such that even though the country owns most of the Amazon rainforest, its President Jair Bolsonaro has stated that saving Amazonia is not on his <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/brazil-president-bolsonaro-destroy-the-amazon-2018-10">list of priorities</a>.<br /><br />And, even though Brazil might not want to deal with the problem, the darkening skies and overwhelming smoke extends to Paraguay and Bolivia as well.<br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/A-devastating-Arctic-temperature-rise-that-could-submerge-coastal-cities-and-trigger-species-extinction-is-now-locked-in/articleshow/68430694.cms">A devastating Arctic temperature rise that could submerge coastal cities and trigger species extinction is now locked in</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/rapid-melting-sea-ice-in-the-arctic-may-hamper-indias-monsoon-pattern-study/articleshow/68778375.cms">Rapid melting sea-ice in the Arctic may hamper India’s monsoon pattern: Study</a><br />

Wildfires are burning from the the Amazon to the Arctic — Here's why you should be worried

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Chris Wattie/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau .</p></div><p></p></div></div>One of the most important trade deals in the world is back on.</p><p>But that doesn't mean that anti-globalization sentiment is going anywhere, anytime soon.</p><p>CETA, the historic free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, is close to completion after an agreement between the Belgian government and the Wallonian Parliament was reached on Thursday, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-canada-ceta-summit-cancelled-belgium-wallonia-brexit-2016-10">as Business Insider's Adam Payne reported</a> earlier.</p><p>After seven years of negotiations, it looked like the deal was about to fall through last week after Wallonia, a French-speaking region in Belgium with a population of 3.6 million, and two other regional legislatures <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37758475">vetoed</a> the deal at zero hour and later rejected an ultimatum to reverse course.</p><p>However, the revised deal now looks like it could be finalized by the weekend, if the national parliaments of every EU member state to agree to the updated trade deal by midnight Friday. But the difficulties in getting the deal done show that skepticism about globalization is still a big global trend.</p><h2> </h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>Benefits and costs</h2><p>Mainstream economists virtually all <a href="http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_0dfr9yjnDcLh17m">agree</a> that free trade is "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EffectOfTariff.svg">good</a><span>" for an economy in the long-run (even though within an economy there will be some people who benefit less, particularly in the short-term), while trade-restrictive measures </span><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tariff.asp?layout=infini&amp;v=5B&amp;orig=1&amp;adtest=5B">hurt</a> <span>consumers.</span></p><p>However, some argue that the CETA deal in particular won't be a slam dunk economically speaking. Paul Ashworth, chief North America economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note that tariffs are already pretty low, which suggests that the long-run GDP bump for Canada would be just 0.3%. "Furthermore, that is a pre-Brexit estimate," he continued. "Nearly half of Canada's exports to the European Union go to the UK. So the boost from this deal post-Brexit would be so small that it would barely cover the cost of negotiating it over so many years."</p><p>Against this backdrop, voters across various developed economies believe that free trade actually hurts their countries, which could be a reflection of their personal experiences. Stateside, 89% of Americans think that the loss of US jobs to China is a somewhat or very serious issue, a<span>ccording to Pew Research statistics <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/protectionism-near-term-economic-problems-2016-5">previously cited by</a> Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Ethan S. Harris and Lisa C. Berlin. Moreover, only 46% of Americans think NAFTA was good for the economy.</span></p><p>And there actually is some empirical evidence to back up those grievances. Back in January, <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w21906">labor economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published a paper</a> showing that increased trade with China actually caused some big problems for US workers.</p><p>From the paper's meaty abstract (emphasis ours):</p><p style="padding-left: 60px;">"China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. ... <strong>Adjustment in local labor markets is remarkably slow, with wages and labor-force participation rates remaining depressed and unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences.</strong> Exposed workers experience greater job churning and reduced lifetime income. At the national level, <strong>employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition, as expected, but offsetting employment gains in other industries have yet to materialize."</strong></p><p>But in other cases, voters skeptical about globalization might not necessarily acting in their own best interests: A <a href="https://twitter.com/FT/status/746275255354818561">chart created by the Financial Times</a> the day after the Brexit vote showed that the regions with the highest share of votes for "Leave" were also the most economically dependent on the EU.</p><p>Plus, it's worth remembering that globalization has lifted many out of poverty in emerging market economies. One of the more popular charts illustrating this is the following from economist Branko Milanovic, via Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Ajay Singh Kapur and Ritesh Samadhiya back in June:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="BAML" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/581241c0362ca41c258b5224-960/screen_shot_2016-10-27_at_1.58.53_pm.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a><p class="source"><span>BAML</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>We've already done a lot of globalization</h2><p>In any case, it's inaccurate to say that free trade is never good. Regarding why CETA might not add a huge direct economic boost, it's worth keeping in mind that we <em>already</em> live in a world where tariffs between developed markets have been sharply reduced over the last 30-something years. In other words, any additional gains are less than they would have been when the world was first opening up because we <em>already</em> have many of those benefits.</p><p>Plus, there are benefits for individuals: It's definitely easier on consumers' wallets to not pay 45% tariffs. To put it into a real-world perspective, a $300 microwave would set you back $435 with such a tariff. Not awesome.</p><p>And finally, given that China's opening up was such a huge shock, one could argue that 15 years hasn't been enough for the global and US economies to adjust to it.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Issei Kato/Reuters</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>TPP and the US election</h2><p>The bulk of the discussion among voters regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (TPP), which would lower tariffs for 12 countries around the Pacific excluding China, has centered on the growing populist movement and the rising backlash against trade. And it's not just Americans dreaming of a manufacturing comeback - for example, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fi-japan-tpp-20160705-snap-htmlstory.html">Japanese farmers</a> have been staunchly against TPP.</p><p>Ashford noted that skepticism about these agreements is on the rise in the developed world, writing that "...the near failure [of CETA] is another illustration, coming alongside the imminent collapse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and the reopening of the softwood lumber dispute with the US, that globalization is now deeply unpopular with voters in most developed countries."</p><p>Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/protectionism-near-term-economic-problems-2016-5">said they oppose the TPP deal</a>, zeroing in on workers' anxieties as they vie for the White House (even though Clinton had previously called it the "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/clintons-quotes-favoring-pacific-trade-pact-now-opposes/">gold standard</a><span>" of trade agreements.) Trump once called the deal "<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-28/trump-channels-brexit-in-anti-trade-speech-at-pennsylvania-factory">a rape of our country</a>," and named NAFTA as "the worst trade deal in the history of our country." But the Obama administration has kept pushing for TPP, and the president aims to get it through Congress during the lame-duck period after the election, providing a cushion for Clinton to publicly maintain her opposition to the deal, should she win the election.</span></p><p>"The upshot is that even if Donald Trump doesn't win the US presidential election, the backlash against free trade, prompted by the resulting rise in income inequality in advanced countries, means that the chances of even already negotiated deals being implemented are quite slim," argued Ashworth. "Countries have almost no incentive to start negotiations on new deals."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>David Gray/Reuters</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>It's about <keyword id="6358883" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Politics">politics</keyword></h2><p>Despite the voters' concerns, it's worth pointing out that these deals are about more than economics.<span> T</span>he TPP deal, for example, is arguably more about the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/will-tpp-pass-shinzo-abe-obama-2016-9">United States' position in Asia</a> than about the near-term economic advantages <span>as China continues to grow </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-applies-to-join-aiib-1472642406">economically on the global stage</a><span> and militarily in Asia.</span></p><p>In fact, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe furiously promoted the TTP deal at various media and investor events <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/will-tpp-pass-shinzo-abe-obama-2016-9">back in September</a> when major world leaders congregated in New York for the UN General Assembly.</p><p>During one event attended by the prime minister that week, an investment seminar hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at the Pierre Hotel, Dr. Ziad Haider, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the US Department of State said, "Secretary Kerry ... likes to say that foreign policy is economic policy, and in saying that he's referring to that interplay between foreign policy, foreign affairs, economic issues, and it's certainly true with bilateral diplomatic relations, as well."</p><p>"A lot depends on TPP," Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-asia-trip-2016-9">previously told Business Insider</a><span>.</span> "If it doesn't get done, China will become the fall-back leader for Asian economic architecture. And US relations with many countries in the region will slip."</p><p>And so it's interesting to think about the split between what politicians and economists argue is "good" long-run for countries versus what everyday voters perceived as "good" for themselves - and how this issue will be addressed going forward.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/liz-ann-sonders-markets-reaction-election-economy-trump-clinton-2016-10">LIZ ANN SONDERS: The most unsettling outcome for the markets would be a surprise Trump win</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="czY2RrNjE6g23Q0yzCUBNysuCleRsdVF" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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