We know that slash and burn techniques are destroying the Amazon, and now many are saying we should also burn through international forests to make guitars for Slash.
Ed Markey: “We know that slash and burn techniques are destroying the Amazon, and now many are saying we should also burn through…”
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Markey criticizes the destruction of forests for guitar production.
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