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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: "Rainforest Destruction Has Many Victims"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.220544.12160@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <4320103@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:05:44 GMT
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- gph@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (G. Paul Houtz) writes:
- : billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- :
- : >This is certainly true in Brazil. I don't know about all the other
- : >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.
-
- : >The greatest worry is loss of topsoil.
- :
- : I hate to say it, Bill, but this sounds more like an opinion.
- : I have heard a number of experts indicate that loss of the forest
- : and species diversity is the greatest worry.
-
- It would be, if the deforestation was fast enough. It isn't - not in
- Brazil.
-
- Maybe someone else can remember which show it was on, and when. You
- would then be able to get a copy from PBS.
-
- Bill
-