"I will quote from the second bullet on the background: The main area of attack has increased from 5,000 hectares in 1994 (20 to 30 percent of the pine trees attacked) to 15,000 hectares in 1998 (up to 80 percent of the pine trees currently attacked are already killed.) How could one deduce from that briefing note that there was anything other than a spectacularly huge problem emerging in the provi" . . . .