@catsnknots wrote:I learnt something amazing this week.... and it was not political or being pushed by a greens group... it was just some really interesting information in a documentary about the local people of the Amazon and their life and degradation of it... but there was some very interesting facts that came out of it.
Amazon Rain Forest..... Statistics say that we are losing 2.4 acres of rain forest per second. That is equal to two U.S. football fields per second or 120 football fields per minute. There is about 78 million acres of rain forest being destroyed each year..... more CO2 is created each year by loss of this rain forest that ALL CO2 emission produced by the rest of the world.....
So what that means is that if you believe man made CO2 is what causes climate change then you must also believe the science that says that nothing that we do to reduce our emissions will make any difference to our climate while they are cutting down the lungs of the earth.....
no matter how much we reduce our emissions by it will not impact the environment one bit....
We need real action to repair the forests that we have cut down, to repair the waterways and to stop rubbish from flowing into our oceans.... that is the only way that we can make a real difference in my opinion.
how are those waterways and forests going in QLD ?
Queensland's largest drought-declared area ever
Updated Tue 11 Mar 2014, 10:50am AEDT
It is official -this drought is Queensland's most widespread on record, with almost 80 per cent of the state now drought-declared
Queensland's Agriculture Minister has announced the largest drought-stricken area ever for the state, with 15 new shires added to the list.
This takes the number of drought-declared shires to 38, and it is the first time large sections of the Queensland coast have been included.
Most widespread drought ever grips Queensland
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/queensland-drought/5306168
Cane areas drought declared, from Bundaberg to the Sunshine Coast
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/rural-qld-cane-stewart-0703/5306510
Stock agent has never seen country in such poor condition.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/rural-qld-drought-close-0703/5306508
