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On April 19, the European Parliament approved a law aimed at curbing deforestation. This legislation bans imports of coffee, cocoa, beef, soybeans, palm oil (and a series of its derivatives), timber, rubber, charcoal and printed paper that can be linked to, or that have been obtained from, deforestation. According to a European Parliament press release, […]

Recent governments have used environmental concerns to justify intensifying their war on the green shrub, but research shows that the amount of forest cleared in 2018 to cultivate coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, was only 1/60th of that used for cattle.

Past governments blamed the growing of coca – the base component of cocaine – for clearcutting, but a recent study shows otherwise