Similar topic, more depressing news: a relatively popular Facebook application called the (Lil) Green Patch has users share virtual plants with one another, and everyone's level of activity is scored by the number of square feet of rainforest saved. The application's page then trumpets how many acres of rainforest the users have already saved. Boo--hiss!
Remek On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was pleasantly surprised to see the BBC News web site describe the area > of the Amazon rain forest being lost in square kilometers: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7756241.stm > > (The unpleasant surprise was to read about the acceleration in the loss of > rain forest. :-( > > I switched to the UK version of the site just to be sure they didn't edit > the wording differently there ..... but the article is exactly the same. > > Based on previous articles I've seen, I was bracing myself to see "square > miles" listed in parentheses afterwards. > > I wonder if usage for larger areas in the UK (aside from real estate > transactions) is trending toward metric only, namely, hectares and square > kilometers exclusively. > > Ezra > >
