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Slide 14

And of course we all know about the rain forests.  They can grow back, of course, if we let them, in “only” a few hundred years, but the species they contain may well be gone forever, and their destruction is releasing a huge amount of carbon. 

[photo © Rainforest Action network (understory.ran.org)]