Comments on: Will REDD+ be the saviour of the world’s rainforests? https://www.climatechangenews.com/2013/12/19/will-redd-be-the-saviour-of-the-worlds-rainforests/ Climate change news, analysis, commentary, video and podcasts focused on developments in global climate politics Tue, 24 Dec 2013 04:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Wally Menne https://www.climatechangenews.com/2013/12/19/will-redd-be-the-saviour-of-the-worlds-rainforests/#comment-982 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 04:02:00 +0000 http://www.rtcc.org/?p=14811#comment-982 “The only way to do this is to persuade rich countries to pay the forest nations to preserve their trees.”

What utter nonsense!

It is the patronising attitude of the “rich countries” and their mindless wasteful consumption of commodities derived from forest conversion/destruction in “forest nations” that is driving deforestation and causing climate change.

The real solution lies in the hands of consumer nation governments that must stop measuring their ‘economic growth’ in terms of how much they can consume rather than how much they can reduce their gross consumption.

The money thus saved can then be used to pay off their historical debt to those nations whose societies and ecosystems they have damaged or polluted in the course of exploiting their ecological, mineral and human resources.

After all, what does ‘economy’ really mean?

Wally Menne

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