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Saving tropical forests as a global warming countermeasure: an issue that divides the environmental movement

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  • Fearnside, Philip M., 2001. "Saving tropical forests as a global warming countermeasure: an issue that divides the environmental movement," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(2), pages 167-184, November.
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