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After all the enviro babble we've heard about the rainforest, it's encouraging that credible ecoscientists are beginning to get out the fact that the rainforest is rzor being destroyed.

Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, and Phillip Stott, a professor of biogeography at London University and editor of the Journal of Biogeography, recently visited Amazonia, talked to environmental authorities, tramped the ground, studied satellite photos and flew over the rainforest. Their conclusions are a stroke for science over emotion and for common SENSE, "All these save-the-forests arguments are based on bad science. They are simply wrong," says Moore. "We found the rainforest more than 9OVo intact. At any given moment up to 94Vo of the total Amazon is left to nature. That is not wanton destruction. This stuff about them vanishing at an alarming rate is a con based on bad science."

Much of the rainforest misinformation has been spread by ignorant celebrities, glamorous nitwits who embrace causes for cheap, self-publicity and to show they care. If they really did care they could truly aid the cause of environmentalism by declaring that science, not emotion, is the best forest management.

Star Trek's William Shatner, narrating a National Geographic video, intoned that "rainforest is being cleared at the rate of 20 football fields per minute." Professor Stott notes, "If the rainforest in Amazonia was being destroyed at the rate critics say, it would have all vanished ages ago."

As for the concept that the forests are the "lungs of the earth," Stott says that is "the daftest of all theories. In fact, because trees fall down and decay, rainforests actually take in slightly more oxygen than they give out. It's only fastgrowing young trees that actually take up carbon dioxide." Besides, he notes, "in terms of world systems, the rainforests are basically irrelevant. World weather is governed by the oceans."

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