PAINTING THE RAINFORESTS REDD

摘要

Clearing rainforests is pumping as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the world's entire transport sector, but there's a nifty solution to fixing the problem. PROFESSOR WILLIAM LAURANCEIN THE 10 MINUTES it'll take you to read this article, some 120,000 rainforest trees will come crashing down. That's scary if you're a resident orangutan or a tree kangaroo, but it should concern you, too. The rampant clearing of tropical forests imperils us all, even if we live too far away to hear the growl of the approaching bulldozers. In a rainforest, every tree is a small green city of life — festooned with epiphytes and vines, and bustling with myriad insects and wildlife. But these forests arenot merely the world's most biologically rich real estate, they also keep our planet liveable by limiting floods, cleaning our water supply and helping stabilise the climate.