From Wikipedia:
One of the most famous quotes of the Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an unnamed U.S. officer by AP correspondent Peter Arnett. Writing about the provincial capital, Bến Tre, on February 7, 1968, Arnett said: “‘It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,’ a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong.”The quote was distorted in subsequent publications, eventually becoming the more familiar, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
In a truly bizarre parallel, the New York Times writes:
“They said if we hesitated they would shoot us,” said William Bakeshisha, adding that he hid in his coffee plantation, watching his house burn down. “Smoke and fire.”
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But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming.
The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar market trading carbon-credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which contains mechanisms for outsourcing environmental protection to developing nations.
The company involved, New Forests Company, grows forests in African countries with the purpose of selling credits from the carbon-dioxide its trees soak up to polluters abroad. Its investors include the World Bank, through its private investment arm, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC.
In 2005, the Ugandan government granted New Forests a 50-year license to grow pine and eucalyptus forests in three districts, and the company has applied to the United Nations to trade under the mechanism. The company expects that it could earn up to $1.8 million a year.
But there was just one problem: people were living on the land where the company wanted to plant trees. Indeed, they had been there a while.
“He was a policeman for King George,” Mr. Bakeshisha said of his father, who served with British forces during World War II in Egypt.
All of this, for something not worth a nickel in America anymore…
Note the flatlined final price of 5 cents per ton of CO2…
…because the Chicago Carbon Exchange closed, as nobody wanted to buy carbon credits that had no tangible value.
And yet people are being burned out of their homes in Africa to plant trees for carbon credits. It is madness.
In the meantime, it appears the existing trees are responding to increased CO2, so planting new stands may not even be needed:
Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new report.
In Europe and North America, increased density significantly raised carbon storage despite little or no expansion of forest area, according to the study, led by Aapo Rautiainen of the University of Helsinki, Finland, and published in the online, open-access journal PLoS One.
Someone should update Wikipedia to name Friday Mukamperezida the first person killed by anthropogenic global warming.
It is interesting that as the science behind the movement is more and more discredited, the movement itself, politically, progresses as if nothing happened – presumably because the science isn’t the reason for the movement at all.
As a snarky aside, I would give this article an “F” if grading it – for using Wikipedia as a source.
I know people are still flocking to their banner, but not only are they often wrong, but they can be wrong on Saturday, right on Sunday, and wrong again on Monday and the casual user has no way to tell which.
It’s not “crowdsourcing” it’s “mobsourcing.”
Much anger and frustration expressed here.. and rightly so! How do we apply that anger to effective means of confronting and ceasing this travesty?
@ur momisugly Mac the Knife says:
September 25, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Much anger and frustration expressed here.. and rightly so! How do we apply that anger to effective means of confronting and ceasing this travesty?
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In times past ( and not so long ago), there would be retribution in kind. But we have become more civilized now. We wag our fingers and stomp our feet, write letters that no one reads or cares about, and if we get really upset we sue and trust the “system” to mete out whatever “justice” it sees fit to impose, or none at all.
I prefer the former – retribution in kind. It’s much quicker and more effective.
So lets all plant trees on solar farms to get carbon credits! http://volumatrixgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/solar_farm_gujarat.jpg
[snip – policy violation – Anthony]
Aaron, Friday isn’t the first. Last year alone I can recall three family murder suicides, in the name of saving the planet.
Flamethrowers are like gigantic aerosol cans you know. Those alarmists who commissioned the torching of villages could be fined for that!
Re Fred from Canuckistan says:
September 25, 2011 at 7:05 am
Who is buying credits from these guys?
“Must be some fools in Euroland . . Obama has dropped global warming from his regime’s agenda”
Fred, he has dropped it from the talking points, it is alive and well within the EPA, which does not depend on votes.
Another ‘Road to Hell, paved with good intentions”; this one built by the CAGW clan and the UN.
There’s been more than a few sources over the years that I’ve seen that insist the quote at the beginning of the article, from the Vietnam war, was simply made up by Arnett. Nobody Arnett interviewed that day agreed they said anything close to what Arnett reported, and so even the Wiki page on Ben Tre admits Arnett ‘distorted’ something that may or may not have been said to him.
Who is profitting from the eucalyptus trees? What are they planning to do with them? Is it actually a cleaning of the earth, so to speak. If nothing can grow there, then when the trees are gone, we will have all that sterile sanitary dirt. Whose’s idea was it to plant that particular tree in different places?
Linda C.
Josualdo Silva says @ur momisugly September 25, 2011 at 4:39 am
“These people are indeed on a war of extermination of life itself. Where eucalyptus are grown, nothing else will ever grown again.”
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Just for reference so we know exactly what is being dumped on the African People in the name of “Global Warming” aka the human extermination project. (Given the characteristics of eucalyptus and its introduction not only in Africa but world wide it IS a human extermination project, Anthony)
I have done a search and found “eucalyptus” refers to more than one species of tree. Those introduced to Calif. USA do not produce good lumber although they are a major fire hazard. Tasmanian Blue Gum (eucalyptus globulus) seems to be the main culprit, in fire hazard and allelopathic properties (prevent other plants from sprouting)
There is a good synopsis at http://www.hear.org/pier/wra/pacific/eucalyptus_globulus_htmlwra.htm
The most alarming comment aside from the fact it is not eaten by livestock is that it is an invasive monoculture weed.
(1)”Blue gum typically grows in dense monospecific stands.” (2)”The loss of biodiversity and habitat is a great threat from the Tasmanian Blue Gum tree, as it is from any eucalyptus. It creates virtual monocultures and can rapidly take over surrounding compatible areas, completely changing the ecosystem. That monoculture creates a loss of habitats for many species that relied on the previous system. Due to its great capacity for taking over a wide variety of habitats, the Blue Gum eucalyptus could possibly spread to a great range of systems where there is enough water content and create huge monocultures.”
There is also information that if the stump is left the tree will just resprout, and grow 20 feet in one year if it already has established roots from before it was cut down to a stump. This is considered an “Advantage”by the forestry companies but for third world people dealing with an invasive species this would be a nightmare.
Comment from another website.
“….I have some Eucalyptus to remove soon, and my neighbor told me I would have to get it out of the ground, roots and all, or nothing else would grow there. Now I know that Eucalyptus leaflitter and mulch contains a substance that inhibits seeds sprouting and that the roots are very competitive….” http://www.cloudforest.com/cafe/palms/eucalyptus-tree-removal-ssi-t1620.html
More Info from: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/calif/msg081915159988.html?35
[Here are the other problems with Eucalyptus:]
“1. The roots suck water and nutrients from the surrounding soil, so much so that new plants have a hard time competeing.
2. The trees (mostly Eucalpytus globulus) cast dense shade and but a few plants grow in such shade.
3. Shear biomass — large Eucs drop great quantities of leaves, burying little guys, and often great quantities of larger bulk (whole branches) that break even big stuff planted below….
…….Here are just a couple on Allelopathic Eucalyptus:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HS186
James J. Ferguson, professor, Bala Rathinasabapathi, associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/bdb/cwhr/pdfs/EUC.pdf
McArthur, A.G. 1962
Smith, G. A. 1980
……..Studies conducted by Cornelius H. Muller and his graduate students during the 1970s indicate that terpene chemicals present in the resinous foliage and fallen leaves of chaparral shrubs inhibit germination of wildflower seeds, a phenomenon known as allelopathy. Fire destroys these inhibitory chemicals that have leached into the soil, a survey of plants used in California Government ( City, County and State ) landscaping and Eucalyptus shows up as discontinued use due to allelopathic and other reasons….. “
Another study: http://www.arc.sci.eg/Pub_Details.aspx?PUB_ID=73214&lang=en
As usual there is lots of money in this.
Walter this may be good for a new topic:
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast
“International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus…..
…ArborGen has been seeking government deregulation of its eucalyptus, which is primarily engineered to resist freezing temperatures….”
Do not forget 25X25 of 2007 “…the resolution, which calls for 25 percent of the nation’s energy needs being met with renewable resources from farms, forests and ranches by 2025…”
With the new farming regulations direct from the UN/WTO coupled with heavy fines we can soon find Americans being driven from their homes to make way for Al Gore’s New Forests Company, eucalyptus plantations. After all Gore told us while he was VP that “our production agriculture is being shifted out of the U.S.” no doubt to make way for his newest money making scheme.
There is really only one way remaining to deal with all this…and i don’t think it’s going to be political or “legal”. One does not reason with psychopaths –and at the top, they are all psychopaths in very expensive clothing.