If we get maybe a decade or two more of clear cutting, no. It will likely reach a tipping point where the transpiration (read: plants sweating into the atmosphere, increasing humidity) will be low enough that the cycle starts to leave its positive feedback loop and will no longer be able to recolonize parts of the forest that were clear cut.
This is already the case for places detached from the main mass of forest
Wait so the Amazon will never be able to be a rainforest again or not? Tell us more.
If we get maybe a decade or two more of clear cutting, no. It will likely reach a tipping point where the transpiration (read: plants sweating into the atmosphere, increasing humidity) will be low enough that the cycle starts to leave its positive feedback loop and will no longer be able to recolonize parts of the forest that were clear cut.
This is already the case for places detached from the main mass of forest