The Burning Season ~ Video: Full Episode | PBS
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Video: Full Episode
Every hour in Indonesian rainforests, an area the size of 300 soccer fields is mowed down and burned. Often this clearing is done to make way for oil palm plantations. The resulting palm oil is used for cooking, cleaning and even as a biofuel. But the fires farmers set to clear their land have helped to make Indonesia the world’s third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide — exceeded only by the U.S. and China.
A 29-year-old Australian “green” entrepreneur named Dorjee Sun believes he has a solution to reduce those harmful greenhouse gas emissions. He has canvassed the world pitching the sale of Indonesia’s carbon credits to polluters in the West.
His business model would maintain the standing swaths of Indonesia’s rainforests by selling their carbon credits. Burning Season follows Dorjee Sun on a whirlwind trip into boardrooms around the world – from Starbucks to eBay to Merrill Lynch – as he tries to convince skeptical financiers that his proposal is viable.
To carry out his plan, local political leaders in Indonesia must also agree that their forests are worth more alive than dead. Small farmers like Achmadi, who makes a living by cutting down trees to plant oil palms, fear the layers of government officials will be the only profiteers from the carbon credit sale.
Burning Season kindles both sides of the climate divide and explores whether capitalism can step in where altruism has so far failed to succeed.
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Scarabus
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No question. Gotta first stop the bleeding, and then teaching folks how to avoid injury to themselves and others. Asking villagers to sacrifice their own obvious immediate interest to address an abstract and to them fanciful concept like global warming would be a joke.
The only reasonable approaches would be to pass draconian punitive legislation or to develop a win-win solution that would make sense to the villagers while providing them immediate relief. I'd go for the latter!
Question is whether the carbon credits thing will accomplish what the world needs. Ongoing experience in China suggests it won't. I'm neither a scientist nor an economist. I hope those who are scientists are economists will find a way out.
- 3 years ago
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Scarabus
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onechance
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THANK YOU SO MUCH. What an amazing post.
I've always avoided any/ALL products containing Palm Oil. Stuff sucks.
You rock for this amazing post.
Thank you again.
Everyone, PLEASE watch this & forward it on. It made me very hopeful for the future.
- 3 years ago
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onechance
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julesrs007
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Please watch this video!
And if you have time, please take a look at my other recent news posts on "Palm Oil Plantations" to see how you can help (I have posted several links in the comments section that give more information on this dire situation).
Thank you so much!
- 3 years ago
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julesrs007
