It's a shame that how cool and wild a place is isn't valued in the current system. Just the potential for pictures and natural beauty should carry weight. If walking on peat is anything like I remember the ground has a kind of a resilience to it that makes it shake just a tiny bit as though looking to absorb sound and the tracks of anyone passing by. It's cool.

When people talk about carbon trading and REDD are they treating land as a commodity with a fixed carbon carrying capacity and benefit to society both local and to efforts to stop global warming and preservation of species? It seems too complicated even with latest mapping technology and mathematical representation of different uses.

I'd like it if the efforts of local people and nations that choose to protect their natural resources early on are rewarded in whatever system is adopted to fight global warming so if their land loses value as a carbon offset it still provides an income compared to similar land exploited for a quick buck.

peat land use to be considered as an idle land, but now it becomes idol.

In Indonesia, government is racing to declare issue on how to utilize the peat land, some policies came out, all about how to make money from peat land.

Then again some mistakes always happen, whether it is on purpose or not, the government never put "human life" into the ecosystems. we want to conserve the land but not the people, so i've translated the policy.