The main and most vital safeguard to protect the world’s rainforests from being cut down and exploited for agricultural forestry, has been deleted.
The main protection of Rainforests from the destruction and the charms of the biofuel farmers, the palm tree growers and the forestry wood and paper companies, has been dropped from the global deforestation treaty due to be presented and signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen this December.
The Rainforest proposal due to be ratified at the COP15 summit in December will benefit those countries and companies which cut down destroy their Rainforests – instead of protecting them…
Smart lot the Diplomats of the EU and Britain – They are given a Remit to save the Rainforests as a bulwark against global warming and they manage to promote their destruction.
David Milliband wants to be Europe’s Foreign Minister and He is the main man responsible for the actions of these Diplomats that deliver us the Rainforest carnage…
Not a likely able man and certainly unfit with a pair of scissors let alone Europe’s foreign policy.
Destroying the forests He is charged to devise a plan to protect?
Sack him – along with his boss Blair – the toothy cockroach of Haliburton.
Really Daft and Antisocial behaviour you would think. No?
Yet this is what the British EU leadership at the talks is engaged into.
They plan to reward the forestry managers who cut down primary Rainforests and convert them to plantations of oil palms and other trees that are the neat harvestable varieties. Now we will be paying for these agricultural and forestry plantations and the companies and miserable countries would still be able to classify the result of their greed as forest. Consequently they could receive millions of dollars meant for preserving Rainforests after they destroy them…
Only under British leadership such stupiity could arise….
An earlier version of the proposed Rainforest protection text ruled out such a conversion. But it was suspiciously removed. Not only the Rainforest protection text has been deleted, from the accord documents, but the EU delegation, headed by Britain has fiercely rejected it back in. They actually and incredulously, blocked its reinsertion.
Reasonable British Diplomats and the EU bureaucrats reasoned :
Why, we don’t need any Rainforests…
but we want plantations of trees.
They thought more:
Why, we don’t need species and biodiversity…
but we want single manageable (GM preferably) one species to manage.
Genius. Palm trees
I reccon:
Hell why don’t we just burn down the whole lot and make it charcoal to use for barbeque.
Then I think:
We should call Dr Hannibal Lecter and let him invite the smart diplomats on the barbie…
Dammit – Idi Amin has left the house.
Then again – they will all meet in Dante’s giant barbie in the sky, along with the rest of us cooking slowly down here, in preparation for the inferno.
Yours,
Pano
PS: Any and all Scientists know that Rainforest preservation is vital. They all clearly state that plantations are in no way a substitute for the lost natural forest in terms of Carbon sinks, wildlife, water production or, crucially, as a store of the carbon dioxide which is emitted into the atmosphere when forests are destroyed and intensifies climate change.
