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Unchopping a Tree: What if Deforestation Were Happening in Your City?

  • January 12, 2010 • 11:30 am PST
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How would you react if deforestation was happening outside your window? That's the question behind Maya Lin's visually arresting short video (after the jump) "Unchopping a Tree." Lin takes her lens through some of the world's most incredible arboretums and gardens-from New York's Central Park to Paris's Champs de Mars-each of which would be destroyed in a matter of minutes at current rates of deforestation.



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