president bill sinatra's policy is opposing an additional threat to this fragile ecosystem. that was going this is a map of the amazon regions where the side of everything in red is land that's been deforested it makes up 19 percent of the rain forest. this area which begins in radeon year is known as the arctic deforestation. 62 percent of this area is soybean monoculture. another 6 percent are mixed crops but even that includes a lot of soybean. was. taking rain forests and plowing that into monopoles or turns up an awful lot of carbon that has been 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 so it means 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 enhance carbon sequestration clearance o