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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] police state
  • Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:38:27 EST

<< Do you have another link for the book? >>

Here's one:


http://www.dymocks.com.au/ContentDynamic/Full_Details.asp?ISBN=1920769307

At $35 it seems kind of pricey. One book I like is Strangely Like War: The
global assault on forests, which you can pick up from Amazon for only $10.20.
It
documents the inevitability of the destruction of all natural forests on the
planet, for reasons of increased profitability.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931498458/102-0916766-0242513?v=glance&;
n=283155

A paper company can provide cheap ($2.50 a pack) copy paper sustainably, by
taking already degraded land and putting in cheap, fast-growing softwoods
like
pine, Douglas fir or spruce and make a decent profit. HOWEVER they can
enhance
their profitability by spending a relative pittance to bribe officials within
the Indonesian government and then getting permission to clear cut a huge
swath in the undisturbed rainforests of Borneo. As no costs are involved in
using
God's trees, profits are enhanced. And you and I gain the benefit of cheap
copy paper.

***

ACTION ALERT FORWARD WIDELY!

Oil Palm Threatens Indonesia's Rainforests and Orangutans

By Rainforest Portal, project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://www.rainforestportal.org/
February 20, 2006

TAKE ACTION
Chinese funded development a ploy to access rainforest timbers,
will devastate Borneo's biodiversity and largest remaining wild
orangutan population

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia

Indonesia plans to cut a 2,000 kilometer long, five kilometer
wide swathe through one of the world's largest remaining areas
of pristine rainforest to create a massive oil palm plantation.
The project would destroy nearly two million hectares of ancient
rainforest in Kalimantan, traversing almost the entire border
with Malaysia, and slicing through three national parks. These
remote rainforests on the island of Borneo are home to countless
species of rare birds, plants and mammals including the largest
remaining wild orangutan population. This Chinese-funded
"agricultural development" is almost certainly a thinly veiled
ruse to access timber. Indonesia has huge land areas of
abandoned, unproductive palm oil plantations and degraded forest
areas that would be suitable for oil palm development. Palm oil
plantations - which completely clear the rainforests and are
biologically depauperate - are the number one enemy of
orangutans. Orangutans need vast areas of interconnected forest
to survive, and this ill-conceived project would speed up their
extinction. The business as usual palm oil trade is expected to
cause the extinction of the orangutan within 12 years. Let the
Minister of Agriculture know he must cancel the Kalimantan
project, and that new oil palm plantations should be built only
in previously cleared and unused areas. Note your protest emails
are going to a sixteen addresses, so please inform us if some
start to bounce (due to closure, etc.). Please take action now
at http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia

***

I had to put in this obligatory commercial. However I do doubt that the
Indonesian government is going to be swayed by an impassioned mass mailing
from
eco-advocates outside the country. Send them a letter if it pleases you, but
remember that when other people send them letters they contain checks for
millions
of dollars.

At any rate, buy the book and be well educated. Ten bucks. Strangely Like
War.




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