Cocaine damage to rain forests illustrates political failure in climate change mindset
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 5:58PM 
Indigenous children in a rainforest. (For link and credit see 'references' beneath story.)Colombia’s vice-president Francisco Santos told the Associated Press people should realize if they use cocaine, they’re destroying the rain forests. The AP cited some astounding statistics in that story: The Colombian government says four sq. meters (4.8 sq. yards) of rain forest have to be cleared to produce a gram of cocaine—and 2.2 million hectares (5.44 million acres) of Colombian tropical forest have been cut down to grow coca in the last twenty years.
Not only does cocaine destroy a resource that benefits the whole planet, it’s a drug that can be deadly. In her book, ‘How Not to Die,’ Dr. Jan Garavaglia says cocaine is the most commonly abused illicit drug she encounters in the morgue.
When I hear global warming alarmists like Al Gore talk about carbon credits and offsets, it’s all I can do to listen.
