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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: does this sound right?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:33:16 GMT
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- >DATE: 25 Jan 93 08:20:26 EST
- >FROM: dan mckinnon <dan.mckinnon@canrem.com>
- >
- [...]
- Rechecking, and I found an atlas that says the earth's land area
- >is 52,426,000 sq. miles, out of 192, 426,000 sq. miles total area or
- >about 1/4, then.
- >
- > 1 acre/second =365(days)*24(hours)*3600(sec/hour)=31,536,000 Acres/year
- >
- >*** MEA CULPA *** BTW, I see on my first message, although I showed
- [...]
-
- > 31,536,000 /640 (Acres/sq. mile)= 49,275 sq. miles per year
-
- So far, so good.
- >
- > So (49,275 / 52,426,000) * 100 = .93989 % of world's land area lost
-
- That's .09398 %, I think. At least on my calculator.
-
- >permanently each year, and since they are talking about rainforest
- >only,out of all the world's land area, are claiming such a high figure
- >that it is all gone by now, and what remains is clearly a figment of our
- >imagination.
- >
- > Because of my earlier mistake, any checking of figures is welcome.
-
- Sorry if I've missed the whole point. I checked your figures and got a
- different answer. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I should have kept my mouth
- shut.
-
- -jim
-
-