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Worldwide, the demand for wood fuel has never been greater; this need, particularly in the 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...
...land More alarmingly. Duncan Poore, a researcher at Oxford, has pointed out that loss of a large food sustaining area through such deterioration is "an important cause of political unrest and instability." Shrinking farmland area results in food shortages, and the declining number of trees makes the cost of wood skyrocket. In some areas of Africa, the price of fuel wood used to cook a meal actually exceeds the cost of the food...
...been estimated that merely maintaining current wood fuel consumption levels in developing countries would require planting at least 125 million acres of new forest. And that figure does not include timber needed for industrial purposes. Angola, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and several other nations have already begun ambitious reforestation programs, by 1985. Nigeria plans to have doubled the amount of forest acres it had in 1980. In Zambia, new agricultural techniques have resulted in fantastic growth rates of 10 to 15 feet a year...
...countdown had been nerve-racking, with gusty winds and thick clouds threatening yet another delay. "It's like your whole life sitting out there," said Technician Bill Wood...
...Brookline home where JFK was born on May 29, 1947, about 50 people--an ordinary number--toured the seven-room, wood frame house where Kennedy lived until he was four years...