Harry Pollard wrote: > Working from memory, it seems to me that the rain forest > encompasses an area of 2.5 million square miles. > > If, as is mentioned 40% of this will be lost, my thought is that > a lot of soya can be produced on one million square miles.
But not for long, because the thin rainforest soil is very soon eroded and depleted from commercial crops, so they have to move on to new parcels of slashed forest. > Actually most of the land of Brazil is not much used but is held > by large landholders. It's probably changed now, but my favorite > is the 84,000 acre "cattle ranch" containing 200 animals. Cattle grazing is actually all that remains to do on the depleted soil... > It's probably government policy rather than the free market that > encourages soya production. In an entirely free market, the soy producers would plunder the forests even worse. Would you say that McD is closer to government or to Free Market policies? Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
