September 8th, 2007
They slash, we all could burn
Though deforestation has decreased the past three years according to official stats, Brazil’s government figures over 3800 square miles of tropical forest will disappear this year. That’s equivalent to an area 1.5 times the size of Delaware. And the market for fuel produced from Brazilian sugar cane will only encourage more slash and burn. So biofuel will fuel Brazil’s continuing contribution to greenhouse gases and reduction of forest.
The report explains the importance of Brazil’s forest: “The 1.5-million-square-mile Brazilian Amazon, larger than the entire nation of India, contains more than 40 percent of the world’s rain forests, and about a fifth of it already has disappeared, mostly in an “arc of deforestation” along the forest’s southern and eastern edges.”
A newsman since 1969, Harry Fuller has worked for CBS, ABC, CNBC Europe, CNET and was founding news director at TechTV. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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