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...developing world, has led to wide-scale deforestation in the rain forests of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asiz. If all the wood used this year were stacked on a soccer field, the pile would be 250 miles high. This current consumption rate, a staggering three million cubic meters yearly, is expected to have increased by two-thirds in the year 2000. The environmental side effects of the ever-growing need are best illustrated in Africa, as a recent article in West Africa magazine contends...
...centerpiece of the U.S.-European dispute is an ambitious 3,000-mile, $10 billion pipeline through which the Soviet Union hopes to deliver up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from its Siberian tundra, over the Urals, across the wheatfields of the Ukraine and through Czechoslovakia, all the way to the homes and factories of Western Europe. The line was scheduled to begin operating as early...
...Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than girdle the earth at the equator...
Regarding the plan by the U.S.S.R. to reroute a dozen rivers, you state that almost 100 billion cubic kilometers of water a year would be diverted. That's enough water to cover the planet right up to its satellites. You must mean 100 cubic kilometers. If not, the Soviets should be asked to reconsider...
...water-needy Central Asian republics, and shaken by repeated agricultural failures, the Soviet leadership seems on the verge of sanctioning a water-diversion scheme that would be the grandest engineering project of all time. At least a dozen northerly-bound rivers would be reversed. By channeling 37.8 billion extra cubic kilometers of water a year to the south in European Russia and 60 billion cubic kilometers in Siberia, the project would greatly increase farm output in such arid regions as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, where the high birth rate of the largely Muslim population could overtake food production...