Tagged with Deforestation 
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Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees
On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation 0
Posted 7 years, 11 months ago
In The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes that "basically, the world's forests are not under threat." A charitable reader could attribute this flawed conclusion to errors of omission and ignorance; perhaps the author simply doesn't know the sources well enough to interpret them properly. Less charitably, one might reasonably conclude that Lomborg intentionally selects his data and citations to distort or even reverse the truth. His interpretations of data on global forest cover and Indonesian forest fires aptly illustrate both failings.
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Tree? No Thanks, I’m Trying to Cut Back 0
Posted 7 years, 12 months ago -
Speedy Gone-zales 0
Posted 7 years, 12 months ago -
Trunk Driving 0
Posted 8 years ago -
Landslide Brought Them Down 0
Posted 8 years, 4 months ago -
Another One Bites the Dust
China’s dust bowl is growing at an alarming rate 0
Posted 8 years, 6 months ago -
Roadless to Utopia
Roadless to Utopia 0
Posted 9 years, 4 months ago -
Can’t See the Forest 0
Posted 9 years, 9 months ago -
How Many Scientists Does It Take to Screw in a Message? 0
Posted 10 years, 3 months ago -
Timber Wars, Fact and Fiction
A review of ‘From the Redwood Forest’ and ‘Forest Blood’ 0
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago
The recent high-profile deal to keep chainsaws out of the Headwaters grove of ancient redwood trees near Eureka, Calif., is unlikely to bring about a truce in the raging war over old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. Environmentalists continue to dig in their heels and repudiate all compromise (more than 90 percent of U.S. old-growth has already been lost, they say; no more can be sacrificed). Meanwhile, the timber industry flexes its mighty political muscle and logs on.