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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph C. Baxter)
Thu Apr 13 17:00:48 1995
Date: 13 Apr 95 16:55:59 EDT
From: "Joseph C. Baxter" <74352.3634@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:damartin@ampere.mit.edu" <damartin@ampere.mit.edu>
Cc: Libertarian List <libertarians@MIT.EDU>
Interestingly enough, it was recently mentioned on CNN
Headline News that the rainforest in Africa was disappearing at a
rate of 5 million acres a day. This is 1.825 x 10^9 acres a year, or
2.85 x10^6 square miles a year. According to my almanac, this is about
1/4th of the total land area of Africa. This would seem to indicate
that either:
\ CNN's figures are way too high. The rainforest is not
\disappearing this fast.
\
\ OR
\
\ The problem is so bad that it is too late, and in a few
\months, the rainforest will be gone no matter what we do.
You know, I grew up in the woods in Alabama and there it didn't matter how clear
the clear-cutters cut the forest, bulldozed up the stumps, and then burned what
was left; in a decade or so the trees were thirty feet high again and the
undergrowth was again so thick that you couldn't get a shot off at a deer more
than fifty feet away. Strange, but I never hear the communists... err,
*environmentalists*, say anything about the regeneration of the rain forest.
Hmmm....
Joe B.
