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They do mention the Congo and Amazon basins but we know that those areas are under pressure.

Under what pressure? It's friggin' jungle. I don't think they've quite got to the point where there are shopping malls there, have they? I just hope there's always some remnants of jungles to marvel at. Just like I hope there's always a few wacko fringe environmentalists around to laugh at.

The wackos make the argument that while malls are not yet present, those jungles are being cleared as fast as can be done, mostly for farming. They also say something stupid like the jungles possibly have some plants that purportedly might hold many benefits for humans in the area of medicine, most of which we haven't had the time and technology to discover (yeah, right). Well to that I say, "I want my birds-eye candlenut coffee table anyway." After all, I certainly don't make that much difference. Just one little coffee table. And really, what are the chances that I would be taking out the tree than held the cure for childhood leukemia, anyway?