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Comments: Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad



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"Corruption" is the same the UK, the US and other did at Irak when invading and mass murdering for oil.... In simpel words, save your forests but leave us commit genocide for oil.

Luiz Prado

"The study looked at China, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, India, and Vietnam, each of which went from a country with net deforestation to net reforestation over the past 50 years."

from aerial photos and satellites all that green stuff looks like "forest." i don't live and haven't traveled to the other countries but here in Costa Rica much of the "reforestation" is actually tree farms (often for non-natives). Old growth trees are still being chopped from "protected areas".

"Last year, a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) warned that REDD would not work unless policymakers addressed consumption issues worldwide and put the responsibility as much on the consuming country as on the producer."

Additionally, REDD won't work because with climate change tropical forests often become carbon sinks not sources. As Lovelock always said - "its a scam, biochar might be our only chance of avoiding climate apocalypse."

"James Lovelock on biochar: Let the Earth remove CO2 for us" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/24/biochar-earth-c02

"Could tropical forests soon contribute to global warming?"
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/rainforests_carbon_sink_or_carbon_source/

ryan king

"Action Alert: REDD+ Failing: Continued Corrupt Logging of Ancient Primary Rainforests with Forest Carbon Funding NO Climate Solution"

http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=redd-logging

Luiz - civilization depends on extraction of resources from foreign areas - go local. build networks, stop paying taxes to any gov, and prep for worst case scenario.

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/11/the-open-source-economy-and-metacurrencies.html

http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/

ryan king

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