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Illegal Logging
A few weeks back, The New Yorker ran a fascinating story on illegal logging, with a focus on the trade in stolen logs in China and Russia. This clearly is a huge problem rife with underworld connections, shady deals, and rampant destruction of forests. I was pleased that The New Yorker, a magazine I’ve long admired for its reporting and its fine writing, set its sights on this problem. I was particularly struck by one statistic quoted in the article:… (more)
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