In the last four years, an estimated 50 to 70 percent of the pines planted 6 on the plateau have been devoured 31 by the southern pine beetle. But the paper industry’s insatiable appetite 26 for timber has met 5 with unexpected competition from an equally voracious insect. Where once grew 10 some of the most biologically rich hardwood forest in North America’s Temperate Zone (which extends 4 from the Gulf of Mexico to southern Canada), there are now row after row of fast-growing loblolly pine trees genetically engineered to yield the most pulp in the shortest time. About 200,000 acres on this tableland have already been clear-cut 30 by the paper industry, and the cutting 13 continues 3. The crime - one of many clandestine ecocides American corporations are committing 1 around the world - has taken 2 place 28 over three decades. If there were an international tribunal that prosecuted9 crimes against the planet, like the one in The Hague that deals 23 with crimes against humanity, what is happening 22 on the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee would undoubtedly be indictable. The paper industry is destroying11 one of America’s last great stands of native forest 25 to bring you fresh shopping12 bags and toilet paper.
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