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Devastation of the Rain Forests
"We know there will be problems in environmental terms, many serious
problems, but it is a matter of economics. There won't be any complete
disaster, and what we cannot solve, well, that's the price we have to pay."
- Eduardo Albuquerque Barbosa
There is a constant war that is being fought in the rainforests of
South America. The deat ....
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.... Whether we realize it or not, the world could
quickly come to an ecological stop. Every day 144,000 acres of the
rainforests are cut down, slashed and/or put up in flames. In 1974,
Brazil started a forest fire of 20.6 million square feet (3,900 square
miles). The fire ragged out of control and was later marked the largest
forest fire in Brazilian history. This 1974 fire is now considered small
to others in the past recent years. On average the burning season lasts up
to four months out ....
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