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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: True Exploitation
- Message-ID: <253.38.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 15:11:00 GMT
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- Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085
- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com
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- AM>Numerous "poor underdeveloped countries" have postcolonial economies depende
- >on a few cash crops established during colonial times. The cash crops -- e.g
- >sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco, pineapples, etc -- have taken a tremendous toll
- >on native ecosystems -- replacing them entirely over vast tracts.
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- Somehow, this reminds me that the same holds true for the majority of
- crops grown in _this_ country - tobacco, cotton, corn, sugar, etc. Do
- you worry about the "vast tracts" of native ecosystems replaced here?
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