Quote:
Originally Posted by Cerek
I didn't realize the Pacific Northwest rainforest was being burnt and strip-mined like the South American ones.
|
Maybe you were being a bit naive.
http://www.envirowiki.info/Old_growt...ific_northwest
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0302-coal-nasa.html
Quote:
|
Speaking of which, weren't those forests supposed to have disappeared by now due to the thousands of acres being lost daily back in the 80's and 90's?
|
Ah,yes, the old tired argument that the sky didn't fall so you must be right.
Or, maybe.... the more likely truth is that Brazil and other S. Am. countries cracked down on deforestation so as to avert catastrophe, at least to some degree. See, that's why chicken little's point out that the sky is falling -- so someone can help stop it.