The Independent on Sunday, quote studies conducted by the blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre in Amazonia as concluding that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.
I always though it ironic that the "back to nature" Bugs and Bunny crowd whose goal is to eliminate big business as a concept, would use the words, "bluechip" to endow a cited source with respectability and with the cachet of competence.
It didn't work in this case..
If the Amazon is destined for deserttification, neither the insane nor the competent can prevent it. Whenever it happens.
Since what seems to be needed is some rain. Maybe we could get a rain machine and send it down there. Oh !!Thats right, we dont have a rain machine do we?