Meanwhile, down in the forest....

Back to the city again, and a fast dawn run through the rain-soaked woods.

The Independent yesterday carried a revealing piece about deforestation. The carbon emissions from just one day of rainforest clearance is equivalent to 8 million people flying from London to New York (ref). Now, 60% of rainforest clearance is for agriculture – mainly due to “shifting cultivators”, which is a euphemism for people driven off their land by the international agri-business of producing coffee, sugar, and cattle for the rich, developed nations (ref).These displaced people need to clear the forest to grow food to survive, while we worry about the loss of rainforest over a coffee & Danish and conveniently forget about the deforestation of Europe which allowed us to get rich in the first place.