Tuesday, March 9, 2021

There goes the neighborhood; rain forests take a beating

 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/humans-have-destroyed-or-degraded-two-thirds-of-the-world-s-original-tropical-rainforests

 

"Logging and land conversion, mainly for agriculture, have wiped out 34 per cent of the world's original old-growth tropical rainforests, and degraded another 30 per cent leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future destruction, according to an analysis by the non-profit Rainforest Foundation Norway.

More than half of the destruction since 2002 has been in South America's Amazon and bordering rainforests."

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We can build electric cars and windmills, but we can't build rain forests.

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