This week, headliner musicians released a video to shed light on how illegal trade in precious woods, used in instruments and other wood products,
devastates global forests.
Rachel Carson, who was a quick learner, would be ahead of us in understanding the
devastating effects everywhere of still - rocketing population growth combined with consumption of national resources, the thinning of the ozone layer,
global warning, the collapse of marine fisheries, and, less directly through foreign trade, the decimation of tropical
forests and mass extinction of species.