diaTribe » stop http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp The diaTribe blog is our occasional take on life, the universe and everything. Observations on current affairs, the environment, politics, humour and music/gig reviews. Travel diary and extreme sports stories, along with the usual rants/raves are also chucked in for good measure. Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:21:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Rant: Time for a Rainforest Tax? http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2007/02/16/rant_time_for_a_rainforest_tax/ http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2007/02/16/rant_time_for_a_rainforest_tax/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:25:00 +0000 Phil http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2007/02/rant_time_for_a_rainforest_tax/ ... more »

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Recently, I watched a video of an old episode of Equinox, recorded about 18 months ago.

Called “The day the oceans burned” the documentary discussed the issues of global warming and concentrated on an aspect of the process which is often overlooked…the impact of large scale deforestation by the timber companies and beef farmers in Brazil.

The Brazilian rainforest not only represents the largest carbon “sink” on the planet, it is also helping to slow the greenhouse effect by extracting an increasing amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For the non biologically inclined amongst you, plants absorb and breakdown CO2 as part of the process of photosynthesis; the carbon is used to construct cells and the oxygen is released back into the atmosphere.

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