[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

so destroying them at the rate of one New Jersey-sized area every year — as Brazil is doing

Give me a break. If this is true, then Brazil should be a giant parking lot by 2020.

[CT-Freeper]

[so destroying them at the rate of one New Jersey-sized area every year — as Brazil is doing ]

Give me a break. If this is true, then Brazil should be a giant parking lot by 2020.

Well, I'm not sure how much of Brazil is rain forest, but the entire country has an area of 8.5 million km^2, and New Jersey only has 22K km^2, so you could fit over 380 New Jerseys into one Brazil.