If this were the last night of the world
What would I do? What would I do that was different?
If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? sang Bruce Cockburn in 1988 on Big Circumstance, an album in which the Canadian singer/songwriter highlighted the impending demise of the last great natural areas and their impact on the ecological balance of planet Earth.
Rain forest
Mist and mystery
Teeming green
Green brain facing labotomy
Climate control centre for the world
Ancient cord of coexistence
Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam -
From Sarawak to Amazonas
Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills -
Cortege rhythm of falling timber.
Who will save the wonders of the Amazon, and with them the climate? Part 7 - Life in a Salad Bowl
It is (almost) universally accepted that trees, as carbon sinks, are essential for life in the tropical rainforest and thus for climate and biodiversity conservation.
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