Community | April 02, 2009 | 6 comments

Governments and experts divided over strategies to save the world's forests

source: http://article.wn.com/view/2009/04/02/Governments_and_experts_divided_over_strategies_to_sav...

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Perhaps it should be the true caretakers of our planet and those who truly care for preserving the sustainability of this planet like Dr. Wangari Maathai of the Greenbelt Movement who should formulate the global strategy regarding saving the world's forests. It seems to me that any other scheme is only going to be used to try to make someone a profit over finding longterm solutions simply because it must be done to save our planet's ability to sustain ours and other species.

This is what angers me about such 'meetings.' A room full of governments and 'experts' who sit there wasting precious time over how this should be handled when we should already be in the DOING SOMETHING stage. Hell, give me the means to do it and I will plant trees for nothing. I will ask for nothing in return because I already know that the trees themselves are the reward. Let's face it, governments are simply not going to do what is necessary to meet this challenge. They don't want to truly regulate any industry and they only wish to formulate bogus schemes to keep corporations happy while using carbon now to manipulate world markets. Cap and trade is the last thing we need now. Unfortunately, what we do need, moral will and courage and ACTION seems to be in very short supply at these meetings.

The G20 is no exception to that. I wondered just this morning as I read up on the lavish meal being cooked for these 'leaders' if they were even thinking of the millions they claim to represent who are starving, homeless, hopeless, and desperate because of their policies as they sat there filling their faces with the best our money could buy. And now at this meeting they argue over what we are going to do about deforestation as if we are still in 1977.

I have a simple solution for them: PLANT THE TREES.
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