Capt. JG wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:

"Edgar" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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How so? We're polluting our environment by cutting down the forest and
by
burning the vegatation. That produces greenhouse gasses, which
contributes
to the global warming. In addition, the lack of trees reduces the
possible
absorbtion of those very gasses.

Look it up if you're not too scared.

_We_ are not doing it. Greedy beef barons are doing it by giving the
people
free chainsaws and rewarding them for cutting down trees so the former
forest becomes grassland before the topsoil finally goes. The mahogany
trees that are easy to move get to become fine furniture and boats. The
ones in difficult locations are burned or just left to rot.
I have seen students in Uk protesting that 'mahogany is murder' but they
have the wrong target. If you want to help the planet do not buy beef
that
comes from Brazil.






True enough. I think we're not doing enough to help, but we're not doing
it directly, as Katy pointed out I believe.


The major problem is that 3rd world nations want to rise and that the only
thing they have marketable to the world is their natural resources...or
tourism and that brings about a whole new host of environmental ills...



Eco-tourism is actually a highly profitable enterprise.


Wxcept mist isn't eco but economically based...look at teh snafi going
on right now at Victoria Falls about the elephant crossing...the
suggestion that the elephants, after years and years and uears of
implanted memory. will acutally use a man made vrossing somewhere else
is ludicrous...