Understanding World Events and Trends - Plain Truth Staff - May 1985

Plain Truth Staff

NEWS OVERVIEW - The energy crisis over oil that rocked the industrial West in the early 1970s is, to some degree, only a distant memory. But in much of the Third World, a fuel crisis is raging out of control. According to a report entitled Fue/wood.' The Energy Crisis That Won't Go Away, published by Earthscan (part of the International Institute for Environment and Development, based in London), forests in underdeveloped countries are disappearing faster than they can be replaced. And that in spite of a $1OO-million-a-yaar reforestation program sponsored by the World Bank. In many poor nations, firewood supplies more than 90 percent of fuel needs. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library