Before terrorists were the eminent threat, before Al Gore started his global warming campaign and before the Y2K scare sent the world into a panic, there was the talk of deforestation. We’ve all seen the people who advocate its cause. We call them tree huggers, and sometimes worse. What most people don’t know is; trees are our life line. They produce the oxygen which we breathe. And without the sufficient amount of trees to produce this oxygen, we die. Trees also help control our climate and are the life-blood of developing countries economies. It’s hard work to get people aboard the stop-deforestation train. Most think that it’s only causing animals to lose their natural habitat, so they c....[more]