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DiCaprio takes on forest industry |
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VANCOUVER -- With all the sky-is-falling fervour
that one might expect from a feature documentary
titled "The 11th Hour," the experts
who contributed to Leonardo DiCaprio's new take
on environmental destruction hit the publicity
tour Wednesday to take on the earth's ecological
evil-doers. |
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Among them was Tzeporah Berman,
a homegrown environmental gadfly whose cell
phone was madly ringing as she scrambled across
Los Angeles to do a series of interviews in
the runup to Wednesday's premiere there of the
movie, which is narrated and produced by Mr.
DiCaprio. |
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The Vancouver-based co-founder of activist group
Forest Ethics was getting an early start on slagging
Canada's forestry industry whose logging activities,
she said -- both in the film and in an interview
-- produce more greenhouse gas emissions every
year than does every car on the road in California. |
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"I think that the contribution
of logging to global warming is really one of
the untold stories of the climate change debate,"
she said. |
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The natural conclusion? Since Canada
is home to 10% of the world's forests, one of
the ways to save our melting planet is to protect
our woods. Ms. Berman did not go so far as to
call for an entire moratorium on cutting. |
