OpinionMarch 31, 1993
THE PUBLIC MIND: READER QUESTIONS THE SOUNDNESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS
To the Editor: Recently, an environmentalist's ad in your paper declared: "66,000 square miles or 37 city blocks of trees are cut down every minute." The state of Missouri has about 69,000 square miles in it. This environmentalist says slightly over every minute every tree in an area the size of Missouri is destroyed. The whole earth has about 57,900,000 square miles of land surface. This would mean every tree on earth should be gone in just over three hours...
Bill Hopkins
To the Editor:
Recently, an environmentalist's ad in your paper declared: "66,000 square miles or 37 city blocks of trees are cut down every minute."
The state of Missouri has about 69,000 square miles in it. This environmentalist says slightly over every minute every tree in an area the size of Missouri is destroyed. The whole earth has about 57,900,000 square miles of land surface. This would mean every tree on earth should be gone in just over three hours.
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Aren't you proud that the guy who was spouting this absurdity helped himself to your tax dollars by speaking at SEMO University? I wonder how many students fall for such nonsense?
Bill Hopkins
Marble Hill
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