Beetles destroying Canadian forests - global warming the culprit
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Posted on March 1, 2006
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Ecological hope, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality
Today’s Washington Post contained a very sad article about the voracious beetle destroying forests in British Colombia: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801772.html. The beetle is not new. What is new is that Canadian winters are no longer cold enough to kill them off, which is crucial for keeping their population under control. The result? Read the article. It is just one harbinger of the havoc global warming will bring to our world.
Healthy forests are crucial to the survival of life, including our own.
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