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- Subject: RAPE OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS (Epilogue)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.184827.16509@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Percentage change in forest and other wooded areas, 1970-88:
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- PERCENTAGE PERCENTAGE
- COUNTRY CHANGE COUNTRY CHANGE
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- United States -3.4 Denmark 4.4
- Finland -0.1 Austria 4.5
- Japan 0.1 Norway 5.6
- Netherlands 0.7 France 8.2
- New Zealand 1.3 Spain 8.9
- Sweden 1.4 Italy 9.5
- Canada 1.6 Australia 13.1
- Belgium 1.7 United Kingdom 25.5
- Germany 2.7 Ireland 38.4
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- Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
- Environmental Indicators (Paris: OECD, 1991), p. 31.
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- >From page 150 of:
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- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
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- New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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- "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."
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- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
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- [Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
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