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A guerilla financed by donations from wealthier countries to be used against illegal deforestation when the local government does nothing.
Rainforest Shmainforest
http://www.tvtome.c...owid-344/epid-2448/
one of the best South Park episodes. [ato_de, Oct 17 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Sure. Just hire the guy who has no choice but to slash and burn to survive. That way they'll have the income, plus he can hold himself at gunpoint if he tries to start a farm and feed his kids. |
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You're confusing farmers with corporations. |
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These guerillas... how much are you going to have to pay them that they'll be less corruptible than the government who's letting it go on? |
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Can you perhaps try to find a more suitable category? |
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Good point... Maybe you can just stop sending money if they turn out bad? Some non-corruptable 3rd party would have to watch them. |
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I looked through the entire list but saw no environment category... |
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Why would you need to protect an armed rainforest? Surely it can protect itself? |
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Try business: economics ? |
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There are over 300 things in the rainforest that cause cancer. I say we pave the thing over before it's too late. (link) |
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Armed gorrillas might fare better. |
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Only one guerilla? For all rainforests? We'd better be funding the son of Rambo that he will have with Jackie Chan. |
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"If you cut down that tree, I'll kill you." Oh yeah, that works. - |
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gorrilla's suck i vote we use panda's. |
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The whole world sucks and its mainly our fault |
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Pandas? Only if it's Panda Kahn. |
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I believe this concept is baked, by
the Karen in Burma, the
Bouganville Revolutionary Army,
various tribes throughout Asia,
Africa and Latin America, but
generally without the wealthy
sponsors. |
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You may joke, but the loss of
rainforest means death to these
people, so of course they fight
back. Much of the world's tropical
logging is illegal, licensed
corruptly, or administered by a
central government traditional
landholders have never
recognised. |
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Friends of mine have been
involved for many years in
peaceful and "other" resistance to
logging by local people in SE Asia. |
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The conundrem being that the developed countries have already cut down their forests. Not to say that that was good. It's just history. |
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