Rainforest destruction in Indonesia

Thank you for the story Fred, very interesting. It's a shame what people will do for <font color="green">money </font> ,while destroying the environment &amp; wildlife to make it. It makes you wish everyone had the compassion that Steve Irwin had, and that Birute Mary Galdikas has, I'm sure she doesn't much doing what she does. Galdikas is deemed, as a primatologist, to be of equal significance to Jane Goodall and the late Dian Fossey.

On a lighter note;
Are you enjoying the snow?
We have mostly(all) rain here in Michigan, (they) say if it would have been snow, the total would be 4 feet by now.
Good luck &amp; stay warm.
 
Sad story, something i always found to be interesting and very striking, when i was in the amazon, when we crossed through from peru and columbia into brazil you could see the difference immediately, the jungle opened up to ranches.
 
Sometimes it's hard to imagine a good outcome for problems like the one described in the article, given the pace of globalization and the growth of indigenous populations.
The article mentions the "excellent" laws in Indonesia, so the problem, evidently, is enforcement. I think governments all over the globe, and including here in the states, are struggling with the brute power of corporations.

Sir Tree Rat,
Over 50 inches in 16 days. We've been climbing when it is not snowing, but it's starting to get very difficult, especially driving chip trucks on thawed and refrozen ruts/ice sheets, and cleanup is difficult in the snow. Otherwise, it's been a nice, quiet time to be working or just feeding the fire. A lot of snow balls flying through the trees, ammo being available up there
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I don't think it will ever be easy ever to find a solution.

The 4 major banks here made a combined profit of $13 billion dollars last year and preserved what? Shareholders complaints!

So next year they'll have to do better and so on.

Maybe Govts need to sell shares in preserved rain forests to raise capital, then the shareholders can all bitch around a boardroom how they can make money without cutting the forest down.
 
I think if ever there was an appropriate target for Al Qaeda's religious fanatic bomb-wearing suicide weirdos, it would be the boardrooms of most of the Fortune Top 500 corporations. That would leave us normal people alone, and probably spruce-up the world back to responsible humanity again.
 
Bruce Cockburn wrote 'Call it Democracy'

(From the album "World Of Wonders")

padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

sinister cynical instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament --
the only response to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
idolatry of ideology

north south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying [censored]
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

see the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
open for business like a cheap bordello

and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy

see the loaded eyes of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
to find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
they call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
 
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