Comments on: In dengue-infested Indonesian village: clinic or trees?

By: eddieblack

eddieblack — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:55:52 +0000

True that Setiwono.

By: helen creagh

helen creagh — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:17:49 +0000

Would it not be nice to see all the well meaning Greenpeace activists donate for infrastructure in these desperate villages and for those at the Copenhagen summit to act on their expressed intentions to help developing countries?

By: setiwono

setiwono — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:50:46 +0000

In a world in which first-world consumers paid appropriate levies for timber resources, instead of bargain-basement exploitation rates, villagers like these would have trees, mosques and clinics. There are plenty of first-world forestry-resource communities, in places as far apart as Japan and Austria, where forest products are appropriately priced. In these communities, villagers have access to a full range of community services. Here’s a global equity issue that can only be resolved by first-world change.