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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: "Rainforest Destruction Has Many Victims"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.173809.20730@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:38:09 GMT
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- gph@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (G. Paul Houtz) writes:
- :
- : Remember the example of Brazilian rosewood. By only sustainably grown
- : tropical hardwoods, or else use North American hardwoods like oak, maple,
- : walnut and cherry.
-
- In the case of Brazil - the rainforest is being cut at the rate of 0.5%
- per year. This is an easily sustainable level. The problem is the erosion
- that may occur - they don't seem to try to minimize it. Also, most of the
- cutting is for growing crops, not for the wood. Much of the wood is simply
- burned where it was cut.
-
- So, do you think we are doing any better in the US? I would argue that we
- are doing worse. Our hardwood forests are rapidly disappearing - much more
- quickly than most foreign countries.
-
- Bill
-