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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: "Rainforest Destruction Has Many Victims"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.073527.2561@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec23.041536.2640@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:35:27 GMT
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- tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
- : >: >countries. Another fact - the rate of deforestation in Brazil has
- : >: >been at the rate of 0.5%/year.
- : >:
- : >: Could you please cite a reference for this "fact"?
- : >
- : >I believe that it was in National Geographic's "On Assignment", on
- : >PBS.
- :
- : This was discussed as a result of careful photographic surveying by
- : the Shuttle on the recent PBS series on Space. I remember, because
- : I was surprised it was so low.
-
- Thanks, Tom. Maybe that is where I saw it, but I don't think so.
- However, you are right - the value was obtained from a shuttle or
- satellite survey.
-
- I was also surprised at the low rate. I expected, from all the media
- hype, that 30 or 40% had already been cleared.
-
- ... delided ...
-
- : I would be happy to agree with you. I happen to believe in a lot of
- : ecological causes, and don't believe in the "rape it now and let the
- : future clean it up later" ideology that so many modern industrialists
- : espouse. But weak rhetoric is not going to advance the cause.
- : If we can't talk intelligently on the topic, we might end up doing
- : more harm than good. We play into the hands of the Quayleoids of the
- : world, who exploit the kind of fuzzy handwaving so prevalent in the
- : eco movement.
-
- I agree. Hysteric handwaving will get us nowhere. We must stick to the
- facts.
-
- Bill
-