4 seconds

4 seconds it would take for our Arlington Village Ravine (6 acres aprox.) to completely vanish at the pace tropical forests are currently deforested. Can you imagine the sheer violence of that? More than 250 mature trees completely gone in a blink of an eye together with the entire surrounding habitat?

As AIRE reminds in a recent post: “90 acres of rain forest are cleared every second. 20% of greenhouse emissions are due to deforestation”.  Take a look at this video, a part of Maya Lin’s (Vietnam Memorial) project: What is missing.