Forest Protection Blog

I have a map of the globally significant Biodiversity Hotspots - Earth's Biologically Riches and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions -from Conservation International. The Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion is part of the globally significant Biodiversty Hotspot, the California Floristic Province which, for global biodiversity and life, needs to be protected and restored -- not logged!!! You can get info on Biodiversity Hotspots at www.conservation.org (Conservation International).

ok enough = enough!!
8 years of destruction is more than Nature can hadle restore.
Some call it Nature terrorist!!
So Do I!!

This is the legacy of the people of the United States that is being destroyed. The true legacy. After Bush destroys this then what do you have. Nothing. Where is your pride in your origins? Nowhere. Stop this destruction and let beauty and nature survive in these forests.

We must stop destroying the planet!

How much more can Nature take? These last eight years have been the worst assault on Nature of all time! You have raped her, you have abused her! Stop now! She and the families she cares for can take no more! Leave her Forests alone! Stop now!
Please!

Some people are referring to the Bush Administration as a "end to the error" especially with respect to his (anti)environmental policies:

http://blog.islandpress.org/242/frank-ackerman-2009-the-end-of-an-error

Thx for putting this out DR> Barry, I just cannot personally see these old-growth trees getting cut. I live here , they are majestic to say the least.

everybody please spread the word

If Bush keeps reaping the Earth the Earth won't be here for the rest of us.. how come he can do this anyhow.. he has distroyed everything he has come in contact with.. & he keeps doing it .. :-(

All your words are inspiring. Speak loudly in these times.

Perhaps we can all agree that we live in a round and bounded {not flat and limitless} planetary home, one which is rapidly filling up with people and peoples' products, including millions upon millions of gas guzzlers, other polluting machines and thousands upon thousands of smokestack factories. This is to simply say, absolute global human population numbers are projected to reach 9+ billion people and the leviathan-like global economy is expected to grow in a near-exponential way by many trillions of dollars in the next 42 years.....provided we keep choosing to keep doing what we are doing now.

Please consider the following proposal as an alternative to what appears to be a soon to become unsustainable business-as-usual course of action. This idea for change results from the realization that we have to protect both the Earth's ecology and the human community's manmade economy.

First, the Earth and its environs are to be spared further wanton dissipation and reckless degradation; and second, the global economy needs to be rescued from becoming patently unsustainable in the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible world we are blessed to inhabit.

What could be accomplished if the human family determined to provide "stewardship incentives" to people who choose to protect the Earth and its environs, the same kind of incentives that are now routinely handed out in huge annual payouts to people who are supposed to be growing the global economy..... something the economic powerbrokers are clearly not doing now?

Please note that billions of dollars are being proposed in financial bailouts for companies building unsustainable products and factories and that year-end bonuses are being directed to "wonder boys" in investment houses and banks who have been uneconomically growing humanity's global economy by collusively creating dodgy financial instruments (e.g., credit default swaps) and fraudulent business models (e.g., Ponzi schemes). These self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe have ignored requirements of practical reality and turned a great economic system into a paltry gambling casino, making themselves the primary beneficiaries of pseudo-business activities along the way. In the light of such avaricious risk-taking and conspicuous hoarding behavior, they can no longer be called by any name other than "thieves of the highest order".

Perhaps reasonable and sensible people can agree that the greed of arrogant, self-serving tycoons and bankstas no longer is to be condoned, much less extolled as somehow good, and that the preservation of Earth and its environs needs to given some immediate attention in terms of funding substantial stewardship incentives equal in size to the financial rewards now directed to the economic powerbrokers.

By redirecting wealth, my generation of elders can begin to put the global economy on a sustainable, more reality-based foundation as well as to more reasonably and sensibly fulfill our responsibilities as good enough stewards of the Earth.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

While the Bush administration talks about "terrorists" in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the true terrorists, as in he and his administration, continue to destroy our planet.

Dear Friends,

It appears that an epochal contest is taking shape on the far horizon between the 'team' of "mother culture and father profit" on one side and 'Team' Mother Nature on the other.

This could be the greatest show on Earth in 10,000 years.

The team of "mother culture and father profit" are adamant in their willful intentionality to stay the same old business-as-usual course of overconsuming limited, non-renewable natural resources; expanding large-scale production and distribution capabilities worldwide; and overpopulating our planetary home, come what may for children and coming generations, biodiversity, the environment and the Earth' body.

Team Mother Nature simply is.

Which team will likely be seen by reasonable and sensible observers as winning the contest for success in 2012, 2020 or 2050, if the human community continues its idolatry of distinctly human overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities by choosing to keep doing as we are doing now?

Any ideas about which team will prevail and when the outcome of the colossal contest will no longer be in doubt?

Sincerely,

Steve

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176

Perhaps I have not been clear above. Let me put the questions another way.

Is there any way, any way at all, you can see that “mother culture and father profit”, given the exercise of all their demonstrable powers of intelligence, ingenuity, greediness and viciousness, can actually gain dominion of Mother Nature by subjugating Her to the whims of human desire, thought, judgment, will and action?

Im looking forward to see how Obama is going to do something with the climate challenges. He should look to Denmark, where Cop15 is taking place next year. The danes have reduced CO2 while at the same time having economic growth. To see more about the danish story visit www.cop15blog.com