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False. The 2019 fires are way outside of the average: http://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html

Also, what you call average is only the average over the past few years, which means: illegal loggers and ranchers burning the forest on purpose.

The true long-term average is a healthy forest with very few fires.

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Can you point out where that page supports that claim?

> only the average over the past few years

That only reinforces in the point; if the numbers changed from the average a few years ago, why the sudden massive response just now?

The fires were man-made back then too and there was uproar about it, and the situation improved a lot. But even then deforestation was still ongoing. So it's a step back, meanwhile the deforestation rate never reached 0.

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