The Tennessee Tree Massacre. Alex Shoumatoff.
by Shoumatoff, Alex; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 23Environment. Publisher: Onearth, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Clearcutting | Endangered species | Environmentalism | Environmentalists | Forest degradation | Paper industry | Pesticides -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable forestry | TennesseeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "If there were an international tribunal that prosecuted crimes against the planet, like the one in The Hague that deals with crimes against humanity, what is happening on the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee would undoubtedly be indictable." (ONEARTH) The author argues that the paper industry is "destroying what remains of the extraordinarily lush forest on the Cumberland Plateau, which, along with eastern Tennessee's Great Valley and the Cumberland Mountains, has the highest concentration of endangered species in North America."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Tennessee Tree Massacre, Winter 2004; pp. 14-25.
"If there were an international tribunal that prosecuted crimes against the planet, like the one in The Hague that deals with crimes against humanity, what is happening on the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee would undoubtedly be indictable." (ONEARTH) The author argues that the paper industry is "destroying what remains of the extraordinarily lush forest on the Cumberland Plateau, which, along with eastern Tennessee's Great Valley and the Cumberland Mountains, has the highest concentration of endangered species in North America."
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