Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reduce deforestation, and you’ll reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and slow down global warming.
There are two ways that this can be accomplished.
First, there’s the progressive way. We can stop deforestation now, through international cooperation between our government and the government of other nations.
Second, there’s the right wing way. Do nothing now, and wait for free market forces to take care of the problem. When all the forests are gone, the market for forest products will go away, and there will then be no more deforestation.
(Source: New York Times, December 6, 2007)
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