The impact of forests on climate
The world’s forests are active players in maintaining the equilibrium of world climate, not just passive victims succumbing to global heating.
FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
The world’s forests are active players in maintaining the equilibrium of world climate, not just passive victims succumbing to global heating.
For the indigenous Guarani tribe, land is the origin of all life. But they and their land suffer violent and murderous invasions by the biofuel industry.
Not only the climate of South America depends on the ‘water management’ of the Amazon rainforest but the global climate of the entire northern hemisphere.
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.
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.
For the U’wa, an indigenous people in northeastern Colombia, oil is the blood of the Earth, and to extract it is equivalent to committing matricide.
Destruction of tropical rainforest is often followed by the outbreak of new diseases. An unknown virus was discovered in the blood of the workmen…
The world’s forests are active players in maintaining the equilibrium of world climate, not just passive victims succumbing to global heating.
For the indigenous Guarani tribe, land is the origin of all life. But they and their land suffer violent and murderous invasions by the biofuel industry.
Not only the climate of South America depends on the ‘water management’ of the Amazon rainforest but the global climate of the entire northern hemisphere.
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.
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.
For the U’wa, an indigenous people in northeastern Colombia, oil is the blood of the Earth, and to extract it is equivalent to committing matricide.
Destruction of tropical rainforest is often followed by the outbreak of new diseases. An unknown virus was discovered in the blood of the workmen…