Where There's Coke, There's Ire

Colombian vice prez chides cocaine users for rainforest destruction 1

Cocaine users get no love from Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos Calderon, who speechified to police officers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday: "Colombia has lost more than [5 million acres] of rainforest in the last 15 years to plant coca. If you snort a gram of cocaine you are destroying [43 square feet] of pristine rainforest. That rainforest is not just Colombian. It belongs to all of us who live on this planet, so we should all be worried about it."

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source: BBC News

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  1. Wolverine Posted 5:32 pm
    18 Nov 2008

    He's Right, But ...This from the government that nukes the land with pesticides in order to pander to the U.S.?  Don't be fooled, these people are not environmentalists.

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