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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently reported that the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has stopped buying Cargill’s Brazilian soy because of concerns about the link to deforestation. Via EcoVadis 
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Indian villagers walk towards the Mahan forest during a protest against a coal mining project in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh. Of the 14,000 sq km of forests cleared over the past three decades in India, the largest area was given to mining (4,947 sq km), followed by defence projects (1,549 sq km) and hydroelectric projects… Via Garry Rogers
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Just four commodities—beef, soy, palm oil, and wood products—drive the majority of global deforestation. And consumers can help stop it.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
As I was getting a ride home from the car repair shop today, the shuttle had an interesting radio show on. It was a discussion with a person of a particular political persuasion saying how "doom and gloom" and "naysayers" get too much press and are a part of the problem with the world these days. While we can of course swerve too far down the "world is ending" path, simply saying that key drivers of degradation are not happening is a childish or cynical ploy. But one example of the challenges we face is this brief overview of drivers of forest conversion to human-dominated landscapes. While I generally do not like these "info graphics," in cases such as the dork on the radio, these might be the right level of tone and complexity.
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China is growing a lot of trees: Here's why that news might not be as great you might think
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The new guys in charge of Brazil describe themselves as great for business interests — as for the environment, campaigners say not so much.
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The consequence of regime shift...
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tropical deforestation in the southern hemisphere is accelerating global warming and threatening world food production by distorting rainfall patterns across Europe,
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I'm not sure I would characterize Brazilian management as a "wonderful success story" but the overall global pattern is clear. We simply don't have the capacity to stop altering these systems and we beginning to see real, realized feedback loops on larger atmospheric patterns necessary for food production, silvaculture, etc.
Here is the original paper:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n1/full/nclimate2430.html
If you would like to see the current boogy man for deforestation (and want to be kept up at night with worry) check out the latest disappointing news from Indonesia:
http://www.eco-business.com/news/half-indonesias-deforestation-occurs-outside-concession-areas/
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