Logging Boreal Forest Could Detonate Massive ‘Carbon Bomb


	Logging Boreal Forest Could Detonate Massive ‘Carbon Bomb

papananook

4-10-2008 4:25 PM

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papananook says:

The same could happen in the Amazon if they keep cutting down the rainforest for cattle and soy beans--we are dooming ourselves out of greed and ignorance. AAArrgh

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