At 10:01 PM 2/4/01 -0800, Doug wrote:
><< Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon
>forest to 50% of its size. The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of
>Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures and for
>livestock... All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form
>of woodchips, by multinational companies...
Turn an area the size of Portugal into wood chips?
Seems like a hoax to me....
JDG
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