Greetings and salutations...
While I was poking about on the Net earlier,
I ran across this image from a NASA site:
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12443>
As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about
the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods
that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the
sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to
replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning.
It would seem to me that it would be a good thing
to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With
all the technology available today, it should not be that
hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so
that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting
of the wood from the forest.
But hey...I also think that folks should at least
make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits...
Regards
Dave Mundt
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:24:29 -0400, "J. Clarke" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>George wrote:
>
>> Let 'em eat cake?
>>
>> My neighbors, lifelong loggers, still planted apple trees in their
>> eighties. They didn't try to make other people do things.
>
>While it's a bit preachy,
><http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/causes.htm> has a fair
>discussion of the problem. It's not as simple as "let them eat cake"--a
>lot of the destruction doesn't _have_ to happen.
>
>Unfortunately, most countries that have extensive rain forest haven't
>figured out yet that those trees are a "cash crop" to be preserved rather
>than an obstacle to be removed.
>
... and some well-intentioned,but misguided policies contribute to that
problem, specifically policies that, with the intent of saving rain forest,
prohibit trade in lumber from those rainforests. If the citizens of those
countries were allowed to harvest that lumber and sell it, the amount of
trees destroyed would actually decrease and could become a sustainable crop
in and of themselves.
Let 'em eat cake?
My neighbors, lifelong loggers, still planted apple trees in their eighties.
They didn't try to make other people do things.
"Dave Mundt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Greetings and salutations...
> While I was poking about on the Net earlier,
> I ran across this image from a NASA site:
>
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img
_id=12443>
>
> As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about
> the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods
> that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the
> sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to
> replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning.
> It would seem to me that it would be a good thing
> to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With
> all the technology available today, it should not be that
> hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so
> that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting
> of the wood from the forest.
> But hey...I also think that folks should at least
> make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits...
> Regards
> Dave Mundt
>
McDonald's will only buy as much beef as you and I will purchase/eat.
Some poor schmuck in a third world country is most concerned with making
a return on his land/effort/investment. Make it more profitable for him
to put the land in a nature preserve and that's what he'll do with it.
Blame McDonald's? We've set aside a certain amount of land in this
country so future generations can see what it was like (more or less)
when the first settlers saw it. The rest we use for its best economic
return. We can't blame the rest of the world for doing the same.
bob g.
Roonaldo wrote:
> it's a small price to pay to make more land to produce more cheap beef
> for McDonald's .........
>
>
>
>
>
> [email protected] (Dave Mundt) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
>>Greetings and salutations...
>> While I was poking about on the Net earlier,
>>I ran across this image from a NASA site:
>><http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12443>
>>
>> As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about
>>the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods
>>that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the
>>sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to
>>replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning.
>> It would seem to me that it would be a good thing
>>to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With
>>all the technology available today, it should not be that
>>hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so
>>that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting
>>of the wood from the forest.
>> But hey...I also think that folks should at least
>> make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits...
>> Regards
>> Dave Mundt
George wrote:
> Let 'em eat cake?
>
> My neighbors, lifelong loggers, still planted apple trees in their
> eighties. They didn't try to make other people do things.
While it's a bit preachy,
<http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/causes.htm> has a fair
discussion of the problem. It's not as simple as "let them eat cake"--a
lot of the destruction doesn't _have_ to happen.
Unfortunately, most countries that have extensive rain forest haven't
figured out yet that those trees are a "cash crop" to be preserved rather
than an obstacle to be removed.
> "Dave Mundt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Greetings and salutations...
>> While I was poking about on the Net earlier,
>> I ran across this image from a NASA site:
>>
>
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img
> _id=12443>
>>
>> As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about
>> the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods
>> that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the
>> sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to
>> replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning.
>> It would seem to me that it would be a good thing
>> to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With
>> all the technology available today, it should not be that
>> hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so
>> that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting
>> of the wood from the forest.
>> But hey...I also think that folks should at least
>> make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits...
>> Regards
>> Dave Mundt
>>
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Roonaldo wrote:
> it's a small price to pay to make more land to produce more cheap beef
> for McDonald's .........
Except that that's not what they're doing with it. It's mostly subsistence
farmers.
> [email protected] (Dave Mundt) wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
>> Greetings and salutations...
>> While I was poking about on the Net earlier,
>> I ran across this image from a NASA site:
>>
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12443>
>>
>> As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about
>> the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods
>> that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the
>> sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to
>> replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning.
>> It would seem to me that it would be a good thing
>> to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With
>> all the technology available today, it should not be that
>> hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so
>> that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting
>> of the wood from the forest.
>> But hey...I also think that folks should at least
>> make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits...
>> Regards
>> Dave Mundt
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
it's a small price to pay to make more land to produce more cheap beef
for McDonald's .........
[email protected] (Dave Mundt) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Greetings and salutations...
> While I was poking about on the Net earlier,
> I ran across this image from a NASA site:
> <http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12443>
>
> As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about
> the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods
> that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the
> sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to
> replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning.
> It would seem to me that it would be a good thing
> to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With
> all the technology available today, it should not be that
> hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so
> that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting
> of the wood from the forest.
> But hey...I also think that folks should at least
> make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits...
> Regards
> Dave Mundt