A Sasak family living high in the
mountain forest, Lombok - Indonesia
Photo: carl56.

I am not one of those who believe that we are in danger of a cataclysmic Global Warming which will doom the Earth. On the other hand, I do believe that destroying rain forests raises the level of CO₂ which will be problematic long term. In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO₂ into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York [Source].

So wiping with one toilet tissue and using more efficient light bulbs do almost nothing compared to losing one tree in a rain forest.

And the reason we are losing so much rain forest cover? Too fast a population growth. And the fastest growing population in the world? Muslims. The largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, with very little industry, became the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world last week. Similar destruction will happen in the only area of Africa that still has major forests: Central Africa. As the percentage and number of Muslims increase in those areas it will only get worse. This is not to say that non-Muslims do not destroy rain-forests elsewhere in the world, Brazilians for example are almost as bad. However no one matches Muslims for babies per mother and mothers per husband.