The Earth
cries in poverty, while man continues to fire up the chainsaws and cut
back the trees for financial growth.
Shrinking rainforests and the disastrous
effects of slash and burn in Indonesia have been brought to our attention by major
networks many times in the recent past, and there is probably some form of environmental
destruction going on in your own back yard that doesn't get any coverage at all.
You must have heard about Transylvania. What
does the name conjure up for you?
Count Dracula's domain used to be clothed in towering trees of the darkest green.
The loggers have raped these forests and left
much of her body scratched and bare.
Instead of replanting, farmers use the dead
wood to stake out their domains and so destroy a legend in the process.
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