Building a green economy could stop ‘nightmare’ degradation of Amazon
by Phoebe Weston from Environment | The Guardian on (#5D454)
US scientist Thomas Lovejoy says the rainforest's rich biodiversity has been undervalued compared to economic activities such as farming and mining
The Amazon will be transformed into a highly degraded nightmare" unless a sustainable biodiversity-based economy develops which properly values ecosystem services and products produced by the rainforest, a leading scientist has warned.
Prof Thomas Lovejoy, the godfather of biodiversity", said if agro-industrial economic developments such as cattle farming, palm oil production and mining continue, the rainforest's hydrological cycle will be in tatters", with global weather systems severely disrupted.
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