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From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,soc.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Rain Forest Destruction
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.185037.31198@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 91 18:50:37 CDT
References: <1991Jun1.213133.2781@colorado.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1991Jun1.213133.2781@colorado.edu>, 
   william@alumni.colorado.edu (William Hughes) writes:
:
: Dear Citizens of the World,
: 
: 
:      We are a concerned group of people who would like to
: address the problem of rain forest destruction.
: 
[...]
:
:      Do you realize that 50 acres of rain forest are being
: destroyed every minute? That's 26,280,000 acres each year.  At
:
[...]
: 
:      However, there are solutions:  programs that let you but
: acreage of rain forest - and nobody can legally use that land
: for any purpose, except you. One such program is available
: through the Rain Forest Foundation. You can purchase l acre for
: $100, or one-half acre for $58. You will receive a signed
: Certificate of Acknowledgement, and a map pinpointing your acre
: of rain forest, plus a Rain Forest Foundation T-shirt. For
: 
: Concerned students at
: 
: Centennial Junior High
: 
: Boulder, Colorado 80304


The students at Centennial Junior High would be well advised to shop around.
School children here in Lawrence, KS just saved 2 1/2 acres of rain forest,
and it only cost them $82.50.

-- 
--Bill Kinnersley