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From: "Dave Kuehne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: The Rainforest Myth
Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 11:38 AM

Source: http://www.impactnet.org/TPVol1Num1.htm
Author: Jack Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



The Rainforest Myth
by Jack Koenig

Even before we enter school, we are made aware of earth's fragile
environment. And although this fragility may exist, its existence
is often overblown by those making a livelihood through the
manufacture, promotion, and exploitation of alleged environmental
catastrophes. Two such areas stand out among all others: Global
Warming and the Rainforests.

Hysterians and other special interests recently received a
"spanking" on the American Investigator cable show called "Amazon
Rainforest: Clear-cutting the Myths."

This syndicated television program disclosed how the amazon
Rainforest is actually one of the most intact and least
endangered forests on the planet. Contrary to the claim made by
Al Gore in his "Earth In The Balance," the world's tropical
rainforests will not disappear halfway through this century. In
reality, the Amazon Rainforest is not only holding its own, but
is in a constant state of regeneration. As the Environmental
Defense Fund concedes in their fine print, the amazon is actually
87.5%-94% intact.

Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder (recently resigned),
claims that the threats to the Rainforests are greatly
exaggerated. He goes on to state "All these save-the-forests
arguments are based on bad science." Moore also contends that if
one were to accept the deforestation claims of the hysterians,
"You would have cleared 50 times the size of the Amazon already
if accurate."

And contrary to claims the Amazon is "The lungs of the Earth,"
the Rainforests have only been around for an estimated
12,000-16,000 years. This by itself makes it difficult to argue
the destiny of the earth is linked to it's health. Additionally,
many eco-scientists believe the Amazon may actually be a net user
of oxygen. Philip Scott from the University of London points out
"In fact, because the trees fall down and decay, rainforests
actually take in more oxygen than they give out."

And no, there are not 100 extinctions of species per day as
claimed by Al Gore, and there are not 50,000/year as claimed by
Harvard's Edward Wilson. In fact, when asked to name a specie
which has become extinct, Wilson couldn't name a single one!

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From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject:  The Rainforest Myth
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:39 AM

AMAZON.CON -- Part 1
Shaky science behind
save-rainforest effort
New TV documentary finds
skeptics among researchers

Editor's note: Through a special arrangement with the producers of the
television newsmagazine American Investigator, WorldNetDaily brings you this
exclusive news report. Part one of this two-part series focuses on questions
about the scientific integrity of environmentalists. The series concludes
tomorrow in WorldNetDaily.
By Marc Morano and Kent Washburn
© 2000, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.

Patrick Moore became an instant celebrity in 1977 when a photograph showing
him cradling a baby seal in defiance of arrest by Canadian authorities was
broadcast around the world.
As the front man for the environmental activist group Greenpeace, he helped
turn public opinion around on the high-profile issues of whaling, seal
hunting, nuclear power and chemical pollution.
Today the environmental scientist and leader of a group called Greenspirit
has a new cause -- alerting the public to what he calls the "myth" that the
Amazon rainforest is endangered by development and deforestation.
"The Amazon is actually the least endangered forest in the world," states
Moore in American Investigator's television newsmagazine documentary,
"Clear-cutting the myths," hosted by former CBS and CNN newsman Reid
Collins. Moore explains that, in the 20 years of warnings about
deforestation, "only 10 percent of the Amazon has been converted to date
from what was original forest to agriculture and settlement."
The finding that the Amazon rainforest threat is a myth based on bad science
and political agendas -- especially by unlikely critics such as Moore, other
scientists and inhabitants of the region -- is not expected to sit well with
a movement that has enlisted schoolchildren throughout the United States and
celebrities ranging from Sting to Alex Baldwin to Chevy Chase to Tom Jones
and Tony Bennett. And which has also raised tens of millions of dollars for
environmental activist groups.
"This is where I really have a problem with modern-day environmentalism,"
says Moore. "It confuses opinion with what we know to be true, and disguises
what are really political agendas with environmental rhetoric. The fact of
the matter is: There is a larger percentage of the Amazon rain forest intact
than there are most other forests in this world."
Moore left Greenpeace, the organization he helped found, in 1986, after
finding himself at odds with other leaders of the group.
"We had already helped the world turn the corner on the environmental
issues," he said. "Once a majority agrees with you, its time to stop beating
them over the head and sit down with them and try to figure out some
solutions."
Yet, the notion that the Amazon jungles are threatened remains embedded in
the popular culture:
The 1993 animated feature, "Ferngully: The Last Rainforest," takes the
Amazon's mystical charm literally, showing magical rainforest fairies
fighting for their lives against industrialist's chainsaws and bulldozers.
National Geographic's "Rainforest: Heroes of the High Frontier" warns that
"despite efforts to save it, the rainforest is being consumed at an
unprecedented rate."
"Amazonia: A Celebration of Life" shows playful jungle animals being rudely
awakened to the sound of chainsaws.
The 1992 Sean Connery feature "Medicine Man" shows Connery discovering the
cure for cancer at his makeshift lab in the heart of a burning Amazon
rainforest. He loses the cure when developers raze his facility in order to
build a road.
Environmental groups from Greenpeace to the Sierra Club to the World
Wilderness Foundation to the Environmental Defense Fund to the Smithsonian
Institution conduct outreach efforts in the name of the rainforest. Dozens
of other groups with names like Rainforest Relief, Rainforest Action Network
and Rainforest Foundation were created for the sole purpose of exploiting
the issue.
A tourist to Brazil who picks up a "Lonely Planet" travel book will read
numerous pleas for help: "Unless things change ... Indians will die with
their forests," it pleads. "Invaluable, irreplaceable Amazon may be lost
forever."
"Lonely Planet" has company on the bookshelf: "At the current rate of
deforestation," Vice President Gore writes in "Earth in the Balance,"
"Virtually all of the world's tropical rainforests will be gone partway
though the next century."
The scientific evidence paints a much brighter picture of deforestation in
the Amazon. Looking at the NASA Landsat satellite images of the
deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest, about 12.5 percent has been
cleared. Of the 12.5 percent, one half to one third of that is fallow, or in
the process of regeneration, meaning that at any given moment up to 94
per