Hollywood Lifestyle Poses Serious Risk to Rainforest

If I wrote the headlines, that's what it would say, but instead the BBC decided to word it this way.

Cocaine use 'destroys rainforest'

Some 2.2 million hectares of rainforest had been lost to cocaine production over the last 20 years, he added.

So we can't drill in ANWR because of danger to the environment, polar bear populations are at an all-time high so let's put them on the endangered species list, and whatever Al Gore is blaming this week on global warming climate change is fine rhetoric to spout, but if we point a finger at all those crazy whacked-out folks in the entertainment business who shove more then their fair share of blow up the nose, why we are [insert your favorite label here].

By the way, notice once again that this is Colombia that is taking the initiative, Nancy.

Mr James, a former cocaine user who recently presented a BBC Panorama documentary on the effects of the drug, backed the environmental focus of the campaign.

He said: "I don't know why we care more about monkeys dying than people dying but we do. So this is a really intelligent way of going about it."

See how your thinking clears up when you're not doing drugs?