[eric_b]

Hmmm, I seem to recall people looking for dinosaurs in some of those forests, as well as a national geographic article from a few years back where someone was exploring an area few people ever see.

<does some frantic googling>

Ah, found it. Michael Fay's "megatransect" voyage through the most pristine forests in central Africa...
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0107/fay/

This was in 2000. Already 7 years ago, I wonder how quickly those forests will disappear?

[Zardoz]

We don't have a chance. We can just stop this "there's still time to avoid total disaster" bullshit right here and now. If I hear any more wishy-washy opium-dream horseshit about how we can retrieve the situation if only we make the effort, I'm gonna barf on somebody's shoes.

We're screwed. We're fucked. We're gang-raped. The future will utterly suck.

Deal with it.

[mlit]

Technology is just moments away from saving us so stop complaining go back to your television sets, nothing to see here. Move Along Please.

[Terran]

China is one of the most forest poor countries per capita if you look into Diamonds books Collapse. To prevent themselves from cutting down what little forest they have left, it's wise of them to cut them forest elsewhere. It's best to save the resources in your own country, and go elsewhere to get them.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')e don't have a chance. We can just stop this "there's still time to avoid total disaster" bullshit right here and now. If I hear any more wishy-washy opium-dream horseshit about how we can retrieve the situation if only we make the effort, I'm gonna barf on somebody's shoes.

We're screwed. We're fucked. We're gang-raped. The future will utterly suck.

Deal with it.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')e're screwed. We're fucked. We're gang-raped. The future will utterly suck.

Deal with it.

[manu]

The bad news is that a strain of TB resistant to antibiotics is on the loose in South Africa. What if that spreads to China? Why doesnt P.Bush go over there and talk the billion plus people into going back to riding bycycles and eating noodles?

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Terran', 'T')o prevent themselves from cutting down what little forest they have left, it's wise of them to cut them forest elsewhere. It's best to save the resources in your own country, and go elsewhere to get them.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')e're screwed. We're fucked. We're gang-raped. The future will utterly suck.

Deal with it.

[Troyboy1208]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')e don't have a chance. We can just stop this "there's still time to avoid total disaster" bullshit right here and now. If I hear any more wishy-washy opium-dream horseshit about how we can retrieve the situation if only we make the effort, I'm gonna barf on somebody's shoes.

We're screwed. We're fucked. We're gang-raped. The future will utterly suck.

Deal with it.

[Kyn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')e don't have a chance. We can just stop this "there's still time to avoid total disaster" bullshit right here and now. If I hear any more wishy-washy opium-dream horseshit about how we can retrieve the situation if only we make the effort, I'm gonna barf on somebody's shoes.

We're screwed. We're fucked. We're gang-raped. The future will utterly suck.

Deal with it.

[Kyn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '
')Well, this news of the stripping of the African forests is extremely distressing. Up to now, I was harboring the delusion that maybe they wouldn't be mined like Amazonia, but apparently the Africans are doing their best to catch up with the South Americans.

[jupiters_release]

Kyn,

We'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're a newbie and not a troll. Either case you should lurk around a few weeks and read before posting again.

Sorry if the comment is abrasive, but for once I agree with Z-man, makes me wanna vomit.

[Kyn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'K')yn,

We'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're a newbie and not a troll. Either case you should lurk around a few weeks and read before posting again.

Sorry if the comment is abrasive, but for once I agree with Z-man, makes me wanna vomit.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kyn', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'K')yn,

We'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're a newbie and not a troll. Either case you should lurk around a few weeks and read before posting again.

Sorry if the comment is abrasive, but for once I agree with Z-man, makes me wanna vomit.

[Kyn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', '
')If not, then it makes us question your reading comprehension.

[Twilight]

Optimism is not a good fit for reality, frankly.

[jboogy]

Bless your heart Kyn,unfortunately Zardoz and plants , twilight, etc. are no-doubt correct. if it was "just" deforestation I might be inclined to agree with you. But please take off the rose colored binoculars and really take a gander at what's going on outside your own little piece of utopia.We're F*CK*D! This planet is headed towards the ICU with little hope of recovery.BTW , I'm really a usually happy person.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kyn', '.')..The past has proven that if a country gets richer, it is able to do more to protect its environment...

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kyn', 'I') think the global wealth will increase in the future, as is did in the past, and that global inequality will decrease in the future as it did in the past decades...