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Oerdin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 12:20 AM
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Some good news.
The BBC is reporting that the rate the Amazon rain forest is being destroyed has been halfed in the last year. That still means the rain forest is being destroyed but at least it is being destroyed at half the rate of before.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4189792.stm
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 12:22 AM
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1. No thanks to our government! n/t
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 12:35 AM
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2. Kick! Glad to hear good news about the rainforests.
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 12:43 AM
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3. Hooray for the atmosphere.
Now halve it again... and again... and again.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 03:10 AM
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4. good news indeed eom
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 12:44 PM
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5. Reminds me of an old environmental addage
We must move beyond "slowing the rate at which things get worse", and get to the point of "increasing the rate at which things get better."

But I take what I can get these days.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:11 PM
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6. ... And when it's all gone the rate of destruction will drop to zero.
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