Go Green: Stop Using Cocaine (and not the energy drink)

by Jason Wilk on November 23, 2008

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  • Did you know? Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.
  • 300,000 hectares of rainforest were destroyed each year in Colombia to clear land for coca plant cultivation, predominantly controlled by illegal groups, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as Farc.
  • If you can’t afford solar panels (there’s the tech relevance), this is a sure way to do your part in the green coalition.

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