The diversity of species should be of high importance to humans, since it increases the ability for the ecosystems we live in to carry out their roles.
The Amazon's destruction will not impact the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere in a way that is significant enough to impact our lives, however, its complete destruction would have other serious repercussions we should care about. This is what we are looking at below.
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