Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Economic downturn slows deforestation

Lower gas prices are bad, and economic downturns are good! Ah, the twisted logic of the environmentalist. Sadly, it does make sense, from a certain perspective. The economic downturn dropped incentives for Brazilian farmers to turn forests into fields, and they responded by deforesting less land than they have in any of the last 20 years. Good news for the planet's "lungs"!