Canada leads the world in forest degradation

[tay]

Lee told ThinkProgress that Canada’s main driver of forest destruction is an “increased frequency and extent of forest fires” driven by climate change. These fires are likely converting areas that were once heavily forested into shrublands. Logging and road-building are the second-biggest causes of forest destruction and degradation, Lee said, and “massive increases in the pace and scale of energy developments, especially non-conventional oil and gas developments in northern Alberta’s tar sands region and also in north-eastern British Columbia with the shale plays,” is the third.




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Canada Tops The World In Forest Degradation Thanks To Climate Change, Logging And Energy Development | ThinkProgress

 

[Nuggler]

8O.........Ok, so it's one thing we're good at.

 

[petros]

Malarkey. Preventing fires has created an excess of fuel on the forest floor but it's okay we can blame it on climate change, Harper, Obama and radical Islamics.

 

[Walter]

Another thread started by a self-hater. More like "Think Regress".

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

You're number one! You're number one! CA-NA-DA! CA-NA-DA! CA-NA-DA!