Saving the Rainforests and Researching a Rural Move

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The destruction can be stopped — and ultimately reversed — with the help of concerned people like yourself.

MOTHER’s column gives MOTHER EARTH NEWs readers a chance to ask our experts about a variety of homesteading problems that are in need of a good answer. 

Saving the Rainforests and Researching a Rural Move

Saving the Rain Forests

I’ve been appalled to read, in MOTHER and elsewhere, about the worldwide destruction of tropical rain forests, the resulting loss of half the species on earth and the devastating impact deforestation is likely to have on the climate and ecology of the entire planet. Is there anything that I, on individual, can do?

The problems facing the world’s tropical forest are formidable but solvable. The destruction can be stopped–and ultimately reversed–with the help of concerned people like yourself.

  • Published on Jan 1, 1988
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