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 Stories About: Amazon AND land degradation AND Peru AND rainforests AND toxics
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Everything Goes Worse With Coke
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30 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Everything Goes Worse With Coke As if population pressures and the international demand for wood weren't exacting enough of a toll on tropical ecosystems, here's another problem: cocaine. In the last 30 years, some 5.7 million acres of Peruvian rainforest have been razed to make way for coca crops, and more than 14,800 tons of toxic chemicals used in the cocaine manufacturing process are dumped into th ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, land degradation, Peru, rainforests, toxics (all these topics) |
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