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“In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don’t stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.”

Book:A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World

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“As increasing human population and fires from the savannah are continuously eating into the forest belt, it seems likely that the distribution of the forest members of the fusca group will continue to retract. In 1912 Simpson described how G. Fusca was found in Sierra Leone along a certain 37-mile stretch of road which ran through thickly wooded country skirting mountains densely clothed in thick forest; in 1946 I visited the area to find no fusca, but bare mountains, grassland, and only a few patches of low secondary thicket.”

Disease Africa Deforestation Entomology Nagana Sleeping Sickness Tsetse Fly

Book:Africa's bane: the tsetse fly

Source: Africa's bane: the tsetse fly

“This was the sound of strength. The sound of men shaping the land and cutting down pagan idols. Soon the trees would be gone, and the bare hills would be crawling with civilization. Avram was the sharp point of that progress. The blade that felled. The arm that moved.”

Capitalism Masculinity Deforestation

Book:The Doom of Balar

Source: The Doom of Balar

“The greatest evil the world has ever done is killing nature after consuming from its generous hands.”

Threat Pollution Decay Deforestation Nature Conservation Endangered Species Air Pollution Environmental Degradation Urbanization Water Pollution

Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“Forest losses from clearing land for farming and ranching, usually by burning, are concentrated in the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Borneo.”

Climate Change Agriculture Forest Amazon Brazil Deforestation

Book:Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Earth Engineer (Sonnet 2336) Earth has abundant resources to suffice our need, but no planet has enough to suffice our greed. Earth is rich, earth is bountiful, like a doting mother, she provides for all her kids. There is no economic depression, only addiction of power and money. There is no population explosion, only outbreak of egocentricity. What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things! And you call yourself an engineer, an architect - a sparrow has more sense than a stupid earthling. Reach for the stars all you want, but anchor your soul in the soil. Human blood deficient of salt from earth, leads to a history of mental turmoil.”

Nature Sustainability Ecology Wildlife Environmentalism Naturalism Environmental Protection Deforestation Environmental Conservation Preservation Of Nature

Book:Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things!”

Nature Sustainability Ecology Wildlife Environmentalism Naturalism Environmental Protection Deforestation Environmental Conservation Preservation Of Nature

Book:Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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