Karim, thanx for sharing.
 
I commend the efforts to protect the rainforest in Brazil from plunder of  
logging and industry. It may do more good for the charities to purchase land  
where they live, for example in Britain, reclaim it, and set it on the right  
course of sustainable growth. And encourage Brazilians by example, that that is  
the way to go. I am a big fan of sustainable development but historical and  
cultural considerations must be taken into account. The industrial revolution  
was the wrong-headed program for developed nations. They must therefore  
recognize that and begin anew. In their own backyards first. Then, by example,  
the developing nations who blindly follow in the footsteps of earlier  
industrialists, will wake up, some time. The development of new architecture,  
processes, and weaning ourselves from fossil fuels is the way to go, I am  convinced. 
Each of us must clean up our corner of the world first, then convince  others 
by example that that is good.
 
There is a lot of hope in pockets of the world. I intend to do my part and  
then encourage others to follow suit. I will be meeting with my friend  and 
industrialist extraordinaire Ray Anderson soon. The theme of our meeting  will be 
How to discourage the developing world from making the mistakes of  the 
developed world. I will share our observations with you  later.
 
It is shameful that African Presidents, either because of ignorance, greed,  
or mental imbalance, think that stretch limos, mansions, and hoarding money is 
 the way to go because the west did it and they envy the west. I am here to 
let  them know that the west is regretting their enormous mistakes and they are 
 turning the corner. They are not leaving any road signs though to warn the  
idiots. So the Africans will come careening down the hill and shoot off the  
cliff, not aware of the sudden turn.
 
Thank you again for sharing. Haroun Masoud. MQDT. Darbo. Al  Mutawakkil.
 
In a message dated 10/14/2007 11:27:14 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
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Amazon tribe hits back at green 'colonialism'

Juliette Jowit, environment editor    
The Observer   
Sunday October 14  2007 
It's one of the most fashionable ideas to save the planet from  global 
warming: buying up tropical rainforest to save it from destruction.  Gordon Brown 
has even appointed the millionaire founder of one such charity,  Johan Eliasch, 
as his special adviser on deforestation.
But like all  big ideas it is controversial, and this week a leading 
Amazonian campaigner  will visit Britain to protest that this latest trend is linked 
to a health and  social crisis among indigenous people, including sickness, 
depression,  suicide, obesity and drug addiction.
Davi Kopenawa, a shaman of the  Yanomami tribe, will help launch a report 
that, says Survival International,  the charity behind it, claims separation from 
the land is directly linked to  the 'physical and mental breakdown' of 
indigenous communities, whose lifestyle  and culture is already under threat from 
mining, logging and resettlement away  from traditional lands.
In a statement issued through the group,  Kopenawa said: 'You napepe (whites) 
talk about what you call development and  tell us to become the same as you. 
But we know that this brings only disease  and death. Now you want to buy 
pieces of rainforest, or to plant biofuels.  These are useless. The forest cannot 
be bought; it is our life and we have  always protected it. Without the 
forest, there is only sickness.'
Survival International, which announced Kopenawa's visit, said that  
destruction of the rainforest had been blamed for the release of 18-25 per  cent of 
human carbon dioxide emissions, the biggest greenhouse gas blamed for  climate 
change.
Charities such as Cool Earth, the organisation set  up by Eliasch and former 
Labour minister Frank Field, could buy a tiny  fraction of the rainforest, but 
their popularity 'diverts attention' from the  more urgent need to return 
rainforest to indigenous people, claims Stephen  Corry, Survival International's 
director.
'It's like a bucket of  water in the North Sea: the amount of land that's 
being bought by outsiders is  infinitesimally small, and if you look at [the land 
bought by Cool Earth]  there's 15,000 times more land protected because it's 
under indigenous control  in the Amazon,' said Corry. 'We're not saying it's 
imperialistic, we're not  even saying there's anything wrong with it: what's 
wrong is the claims being  put forward in its name, that this is a permanent 
solution.'
Matthew  Owen, Cool Earth's director, defended the charity against claims 
that the  benefits of buying rainforest were exaggerated. Cool Earth only bought 
land  which had rights for logging and was on the 'frontier' of the risk of  
destruction, said Owen. The charity, which charges donors £70 an acre, has  
bought 32,000 acres in Brazil and Ecuador. An estimated 50 million acres of  
rainforest - an area the size of Britain - is cut down annually.
Cool Earth and other charities have previously been accused of 'green  
colonialism' - a criticism they tried to counter by giving the freehold of  land to 
local organisations, along with funds and training to protect it, and  
encouraging local people to carry on traditional trades such as rubber tapping  and 
gathering fruits and nuts. 'We give it to them with no strings attached  except 
it's kept standing,' added Owen.
The Survival International  report, 'Progress can Kill', says land ownership 
has the biggest impact on  health of indigenous tribes because people 
separated from their land are prone  to imported western diseases, suffer mental 
illnesses and high rates of  suicide, said Corry.

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