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Posted Thu Oct 9 2008: from LIve Mint: India’s cremated leave ashes, carbon footprint http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1223590888 Kanpur: Even the dead are adding big time to the carbon footprint. And the preference of Indian Hindus for conventional cremation in a country of 1.1 billion is only exacerbating the global problem. If you want to burn a body completely, it will 400-500kg of wood, says Kalu Chaudhary, a body-burner at the Harishchandra ghat in Varanasi. If you do the math, that means about 50-60 million trees, covering 1,500-2,000 sq. km of forest land, are cut every year to burn the dead in India... [Read more stories about: ] New!: No reader quips yet -- be the first! Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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