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The Amazon rainforest produces oxygen because it’s doing everyone’s job for them.

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The Amazon rainforest does produce oxygen through photosynthesis, but it also consumes most of it through respiration, so its net contribution is small. The popular claim that it supplies the world's oxygen is an exaggeration.

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