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I've heard things like "every second, an acre of rainforest is destroyed" Is that true? How many acres are there of rainforest left in the world now? how does this compare to 10-15 years ago? THANKS to all who answer - yall are the best!

2007-01-02 11:44:34 · 4 answers · asked by Upon this rock 3 in Environment

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Here's a site that should answer all your questions:

It also includes information such as 1-1/2 acre being lost per second, and a comparison of total Earth coverage

http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm

2007-01-02 12:10:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The earth has 37 Billion acres of land.. not 57.3 million. Still doesn t excuse that fact that we are burning/clearing the rain forest. The REAL problem lies in livestock. Livestock accounts for 65% of all methane emissions on the planet. Methane is MUCH more destructive to the ozone than carbon emissions. In fact, if you combined all carbon emissions from cars, boats, planes, etc.. It still wouldn t equal the amount of emissions as livestock production. Livestock production also puts lethal amounts of methane into the rivers and lakes which in turn feed into the oceans. There is much speculation that this is one of the root causes of fish depletion (other than fishing with giant nets which catches 5lbs of wild fish for every lb of "targeted" fish)

2015-09-23 15:51:48 · answer #2 · answered by JT 1 · 1 1

the earth has 57.3 million acres of land. by these statistics (1.5 a sec) we destroy 47.3 million acres of rainforest a year... so we are destroying rainforests on other planets apparently.

2015-06-16 07:41:26 · answer #3 · answered by Andrea L 1 · 2 1

haha

2015-07-24 05:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by David 1 · 0 1

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