"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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Farmers USED to deplete resources. Cattlemen still do, depending on which
beef you're referring to. Quite a bit of beef comes from Latin America,
where rain forests have been replaced with grazing land whose products
feed just one industry: Fast food.


On the other hand, recently released studies indicate that the negative
impact of cutting down forests, including tropical rain forests, have been
greatly overestimated in the past. The total amount is insignificant in the
grand scheme of things and, surprisingly, cutting down old trees allows new
trees to grow that have much greater positive impacts on the atmosphere and
environment. The overall effect is positive.

Another case of over-zealous doomsayers?

Eisboch