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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!stevenj
- From: stevenj@microsoft.com (Steven Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Rainforest Destruction
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.222323.3905@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:23:23 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec21.223342.1@acad2.alaska.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.223342.1@acad2.alaska.edu>, asket@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
- > the original writer is correct, overall, the great majority of exotic
- > wood is burned down, not logged.
- > Even more tragically, he pointed out that in many countries where
- > export bans have been imposed, the rural population now simply burns
- > down the timber because they can no longer export it, so export bans
- > don't always accomplish what they intended.
- > Personally, as a woodworker and a human, I would much rather see
- > a tree turned into a treasured piece of fine furniture, than burned
- > to ashes as an indirect, unintended result of an export ban. This is
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- This directly correlates to my personal experience living in Kenya (and
- visiting several other east/central African countries. Slash and burn
- was the biggest killer of trees by far, and I'd bet a rainforest that
- if certain species of those trees could be cut and sold for a profit
- that the indigenuous people would begin to do so. With edutcation
- in forest management, they might even begin to do so at a sustainable
- rate. Even if they cut them as fast as they could find them, though,
- I think the deforrestation rate would be alot slower than simply
- lighting the forest on fire and clearing the land with machinery or
- by hand.
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