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Posted Thu Oct 9 2008: from LIve Mint:
India’s cremated leave ashes, carbon footprint http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1223590888
Kanpur: Even the dead are adding big time to the carbon footprint. And the preference of Indian Hindus for conventional cremation in a country of 1.1 billion is only exacerbating the global problem. If you want to burn a body completely, it will 400-500kg of wood, says Kalu Chaudhary, a body-burner at the Harishchandra ghat in Varanasi. If you do the math, that means about 50-60 million trees, covering 1,500-2,000 sq. km of forest land, are cut every year to burn the dead in India...
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