that impacts the way we live in the united states and, certainly, down here. think about this. the trees here that used to be here had leaves. and the water that came out of the leaves helped that cycle that is associated with the rain forest. so when the trees are gone and the leaves are gone, that cycle of the rain stops. absent that cycle of the rain, this becomes like a dry savannah. because of the immensity of the amazon rain forest, what happens here actually impacts the global climate. and according to the experts that when you start taking out as they ve done 74,000 acres since the beginning of this year in the amazon, sort of an 83% increase over last year, what that ultimately does is it impacts in such a dramatic way because of the force of the amazon the weather where we live. in fact, one of the things they say is those who live in the