president bill sinatra's policies are posing an additional threat to this fragile ecosystem.that was this is a map of the amazon region where the side of everything in red is land that's been deforested it makes up 19 percent of the rainforest. this area which begins and road. is known as the ark of deforestation. 62 percent of this area is soybean monoculture. another 6 percent are mixed crops but even that includes a lot of soybean. we don't well miles from each so ours are. taking rain forests and plowing that into soybean monopoles or turns up an awful lot of carbon that is stored in the soil stored in in the forests so that that those vast monocultures and met a lot of greenhouse gases just in turning it over the 1st time but then every time they're plowing you have the emissions from. a cultural machinery itself and then you have the emissions of crushing the soybeans processing it and shipping them back to china it's an enormously energy intensive. process. in the context of climate change how do we reduce our very cultural footprint in landscapes and then have carbon