50 Simple Steps To Save The Worlds Rainforests How To Save Our Rainforests With Everyday Acts Kim Henderson by Kim Henderson, The Green Patriot Working Group 9781893910959, 1893910954 instant download after payment.

Despite the very best conservation and environmental policy-making efforts, at least 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest disappear each day. If action is not taken now, experts estimate that the world's rainforests will mostly disappear within 50 years. Currently, the destruction of tropical forests is responsible for 17 percent of man-made carbon emissions—more than what comes from all the world's cars, airplanes and ships combined! Tropical rainforests need our help—and that's where 50 Simple Steps to Save the World's Rainforests comes in. The future of the world's rainforests lies to a large extent in the collective hands of consumers and how they shop, since demand is what fuels the forces driving deforestation—agriculture, logging, and resource extraction. Through the 50-step journey, you will learn how, as a consumer, you may unwittingly support rainforest destruction and more importantly, precisely how you can make different choices that help save...