There’s another reason for the lack of public awareness: Much of the devastation is hidden from view by thin “beauty strips” of native forest left along the plateau’s highways. But a quarter of the world’s paper 27 and 60 percent of America’s wood products are being 19 produced 36 in the South, and the will to address the abuses of the paper industry, which contributes 8 millions of dollars to the campaign coffers of politicians around the country, just isn’t there - certainly not in Tennessee. The federal and state agencies that are supposed to be regulating the paper, timber, and mining 15 industries are populated with 34 these companies’ former executives and have come 29 to view these industries as clients whose permits and projects should be facilitated 35 rather than scrutinized. Nearly 90 percent of the Cumberland Plateau is in private hands and exempt from all but a few government regulations 18. Not many people are aware of what is taking 14place 33. The loss of biodiversity is tragic but also absurd economically it doesn’t even make good business sense. Yet it seems 7 still committed to destroying 16 what remains 24 of the extraordinarily lush forest on the Cumberland Plateau, which, along with eastern Tennessee’s Great Valley and the Cumberland Mountains, has the highest concentration of endangered species in North America. Unable to salvage its dead timber, the paper industry has been losing 17hundreds of millions of dollars. The entire South has been ravaged 32 by the worst outbreak in its history of this native predator of pine trees, caused by the tremendous increase in the amount of pine available for it to eat on the industry plantations that have replaced 20 the native forest. 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. “Is” é a flexão de Simple Present do verbo “to be” usada com a terceira pessoa do singular. “Was” é a flexão de Simple Past do verbo “to be”, usada com a terceira pessoa do singular (he/she/it).

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