05-27-2011, 07:48 AM
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Apocalypse
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Limbo
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Originally Posted by GatorB
Kind of hypocritical of you. 98% of the forest the US had 300 years ago is gone. If we had half the forests we had 300 yeas ago the Amazon wouldn't even matter. You want Brazil to not cut down trees so American can continue to rape it's own land? How about EVERYONE cut back on deforestation?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defores..._United_States
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Deforestation in the United States is an ongoing environmental issue that attracts protests from environmentalists. Prior to the arrival of European-Americans about one half of the United States land area was forest, about 4 million square kilometers (1 billion acres) in 1600, yet today it is only about 3 million square kilometers (747 million acres).[1] Nearly all of this deforestation took place prior to 1910, and the forest resources of the United States have remained relatively constant through the entire 20th century.[1]
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