Note: Never mind that trees plantings to offset emissions actually makes the environment worse according to one study. (See: Carbon offsets 'harm environment' – BBC. The poor farmers are bearing the brunt of misguided and scientifically unfounded global warming fears and “solutions.”
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The other side of carbon trading
Planting trees in Uganda to offset greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe seemed like a good idea - until farmers were evicted from their land to make room for a forest. Fortune's Stephan Faris reports.
(Fortune Magazine) -- Planting trees in Mount Elgon National Park in eastern Uganda seemed like a project that would benefit everyone. The Face Foundation, a nonprofit group established by Dutch power companies, would receive carbon credits for reforesting the park's perimeter. It would then sell the credits to airline passengers wanting to offset their emissions, reinvesting the revenues in further tree planting. The air would be cleaner, travelers would feel less guilty and Ugandans would get a larger park.
But to the farmers who once lived just inside the park, the project has been anything but a boon. They have been fighting to get their land back since being evicted in the early 1990s and have pressed their case with lawsuits.
Last year, when the courts granted three border communities an injunction against the evictions, the farmers took it as permission to clear the land they consider theirs. Now a stubble of stumps - all that's left of the trees meant to absorb carbon dioxide - dots the rows of newly planted maize and budding green beans.
The project in Uganda is part of a growing trade in voluntary carbon offsets, in which environmentally concerned consumers pay to have others remove an amount of carbon equal to what they emit. Vendors earn carbon credits by planting trees, which capture carbon from the atmosphere, or by modifying existing factories to consume fewer fossil fuels.
rog - "Maybe it was just all talk."
Is that all you have rog? No facts, no science and no clue only the last resort of insults.
Well Ender has been slack - he's been too busy making vast amounts of loot in his busy exciting career so he can retire in style.
But blow me down and holy T rexs - a mate of mine has just done it - again after making vast amounts of wampum he seems to have built a totally self sufficient solar and wind eco-house up the Sunshine Coast and retired early - pays nothing now he's "off the grid" and the bastard seems very happy as are the wife and kids. Into sailing too. He has that smarmy smile that really shits you - as people have been telling him for years that it wasn't possible.
Well some of us have to man the blogs and science benches I guess.
Speaking of holy cows and other sacred dinosaurs, hows your mate Ender going with his wind mill?
It must almost be ready to move into - oh, I forgot, Ender claims that he never said he was going to sell his coastal home, with pool, and move inland to build an energy efficient structure that will survive the tempests of AGW.
Maybe it was just all talk.