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...Rain Forests at Risk
Money talks--a lot louder than any environmentalist can. This was evident in your article about paving a 435-mile road through the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16]. Perhaps it is difficult for Brazil to look past the short-term economic gains of paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit...
...destroy ozone. Large quantities of methyl bromide and other halogen-containing chemicals are pushed skyward in biomass fires. Such fires could be the source of most of the bromide getting to the ozone layer and destroying it. Large quantities of sulfur dioxide are also emitted that can increase acid-rain fallout. The U.N. needs a program to discourage deliberate biomass burning. JAMES A. SINGMASTER III Fremont, Calif...
...needs to be heeded. I have traveled on many occasions in the past 26 years on some of the roads you described. I can't help noticing the increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state, where it is unlikely that primary growth will ever take hold again...
...live sound (recorded last year) and the piano improvisations before almost every song bring energy and freshness to old favorites such as "Mandolin Rain" and the poignant "Road Not Taken." And the combination of piano artistry and heavy lyrics on "The Way It Is" that won Hornsby a Grammy in 1986 still delivers a powerful punch. New additions to the Hornsby repertoire include "The End of the Innocence," which, although co-penned by Hornsby, was originally recorded by Don Henley. Overall, Here Come the Noise Makers presents both a retrospective of Hornsby's 15-year musical career and puts...