One very obvious contributor to world climate change doesn’t seem to get a lot of press, lately. Deforestation has been the focus of conservationists for some decades now, especially the destruction of equatorial rain forests in Brazil and Asia. Recently, however, it has lost its place in the media due to the attention brought to the effects of industry, energy production and autos on the global CO2 budget. These things tend to be cyclical, to be sure, but the CO2 absorption budget represented by the world’s forests is massive, and to allow continued deforestation would create a great peril to a balanced world climate.

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