FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
A study by the Imperial College London undercuts the believe that destruction of rainforest leads to long-term improvement of local jobs and infrastructure.
Cocaine and heroine production have sacrificed millions of hectares of (forest) land, and demand is still growing. The jungle labs pollute additional land.
The small stands of Cedar of Lebanon which man-made deforestation has left of once proud forests in their home country are now threatened by global heating.
New discoveries show that tree vapours cool the planet, and that protecting old-growth forests would be one of the best ways to counteract global heating.
Global deforestation costs far more than the current banking crisis (2008). Yet another sobering calculation exposing the lack of political will.
In 2006, the UK was the second highest importer of illegal timber – after Finland which acts as Europe’s hub for illegal timber coming via China and Russia.
Iraq has lost tens of millions of date palm trees as well as orange trees and lemon trees, due to war. First in the Iran-Iraq war, then in the US invasion.
After prayers of the U’wa tribe in Colombia an entire oil field disappeared and 100 million US dollars of excavation spendings could not bring it back.
Advances in biotechnology suggest gaining electricity from trees. Such small dispersed systems could be build by everyone and support decentralisation.
A study by the Imperial College London undercuts the believe that destruction of rainforest leads to long-term improvement of local jobs and infrastructure.
Cocaine and heroine production have sacrificed millions of hectares of (forest) land, and demand is still growing. The jungle labs pollute additional land.
The small stands of Cedar of Lebanon which man-made deforestation has left of once proud forests in their home country are now threatened by global heating.
New discoveries show that tree vapours cool the planet, and that protecting old-growth forests would be one of the best ways to counteract global heating.
Global deforestation costs far more than the current banking crisis (2008). Yet another sobering calculation exposing the lack of political will.
In 2006, the UK was the second highest importer of illegal timber – after Finland which acts as Europe’s hub for illegal timber coming via China and Russia.
Iraq has lost tens of millions of date palm trees as well as orange trees and lemon trees, due to war. First in the Iran-Iraq war, then in the US invasion.
After prayers of the U’wa tribe in Colombia an entire oil field disappeared and 100 million US dollars of excavation spendings could not bring it back.
Advances in biotechnology suggest gaining electricity from trees. Such small dispersed systems could be build by everyone and support decentralisation.
