Haase comments - I am amazed by how we worry about "what car we drive makes a difference" while Indonesia slaughters enough CO2 eating forests per hour to offset thousands of cars (yes per hour). Keeping these forests would be like removing millions of cars from the road...
Indonesia is the world's fastest destroyer of forests, eradicating 300 football fields' worth every hour, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday as it staged a demonstration. Activists dressed as loggers chain-sawed a 20-metre (65-foot) wooden wall in the capital, Jakarta, to symbolize the destruction, saying industrial and illegal logging were mainly to blame. Greenpeace said data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization showed Indonesia destroyed nearly 1.9 million ...Link
Indonesia is the world's fastest destroyer of forests, eradicating 300 football fields' worth every hour, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday as it staged a demonstration. Activists dressed as loggers chain-sawed a 20-metre (65-foot) wooden wall in the capital, Jakarta, to symbolize the destruction, saying industrial and illegal logging were mainly to blame. Greenpeace said data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization showed Indonesia destroyed nearly 1.9 million ...Link