ApocaDocs: Monoculture tree plantations are "green deserts" not forests, say activists

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Posted Sun Sep 21 2008: from Mongabay:


	Monoculture tree plantations are "green deserts" not forests, say activists http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1222006773 Simone Lovera of the Global Forest Coalition says that "plantations form part of an industrial model for the production of abundant and cheap raw material that serves as an input for the economic growth of the industrialized countries. What the producer countries get are environmental degradation and rising poverty, which are the 'externalized costs' of this cheap raw material." Since 1980 tropical forest plantations have expanded by almost fivefold.

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