19.1.07

Amazon Rainforest Destruction

"This is not a small region previewed here: this is millions of acres of trees that have been removed from the Amazonian rainforests and turned into houses and paper. The amount of devestation is so vast that you can easily see its extent from space. Scroll around and zoom in to see the scale of these logging operations."

Link to map

One Digg user calculated that this is about the size of Vermont. I knew I wasn't going to like what I saw, but ffs, that's insane. Interesting that the article I got the quote from doesn't offer any suggestions on what we can do about this.

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