Myanmar's Extensive Forests are Declining Rapidly - Science

The distribution of forest cover and forest cover change across Myanmar.

Credit: Bhagwat et al., 2017

Phys.org:  Myanmar's extensive forests are declining rapidly due to political and economic change


Co-author Dr. Qiongyu Huang states: "We found that forests cover 42,365,729 ha or 63% of Myanmar, making it one of the most forested countries in the region. However, severe logging, expanding plantations, and degradation pose increasing threats. Only 38% of the country's forests can be considered intact with canopy cover >80%. Between 2002 and 2014, intact forests declined at a rate of 0.94% annually, totaling more than 2 million ha forest loss."

- PO

It's mystifying that so little is done about the way the planet is being denuded here and elsewhere particularly when that exacerbates substantially the climate change.


This is another example of it.  (Ithaka:  The Cocaine Wars and the Deforestation of Central America)

Ed:  they didn't read it?

Nope.  Are you grokking the definition of ostrichism yet?


I doubt there's much to be done since the corporations are too big, too powerful, and too malevolent to stop so the world likely will continue in denudation to the inevitable conclusion.

Ed:  what's that?

The waters rise and Washington drowns.  That alone is a blessing for the world when they're a large part of the reason it happened.  Those corporate maggots will do nothing to stop this so, fuck it, drown them.

Ed:  they must get the water?

Of course they must since they wouldn't use the lotion and localizing this to the realm of serial killers is apt for Washington, don't you think?

Ref:  "Silence of the Lambs"