If you're a tree hugger, Amazon deforestation is a very real issue with deep environmental consequences -- consequences deep enough to create economic consequences. That's where I get concerned.

The potential extinction of honeybees is another good issue for tree huggers. Anything but global warming, which is a lie. -- KM


RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Â? Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months Â? the first such increase in three years Â? as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees, officials said Saturday...

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