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The World Bank has a program under which nations can apply for sizable grants in return for reduced logging of environmentally sensitive forests. Now there are charges of corruption.

Peat-swamp forest in Indonesia is burned to make way for palm oil plantations, 07/04/10. (photo: John Novis/AFP/Getty Images)
Peat-swamp forest in Indonesia is burned to make way for palm oil plantations, 07/04/10. (photo: John Novis/AFP/Getty Images)

 

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+1 # Bearzerker 2010-07-06 12:00
Global Warming is a misnomer... a dupe, but then we see articles like this and people wonder why we have C02 saturation and a reduction of fresh water globally? and then blame it on cars and other types of petroleum consumption, or industry, everything but whats actually happening like deforestation and over-fishing or the defilement of our oceans, rivers and lakes... we have extremely large and growing dead zones in the oceans, plankton are shrinking in size and dying off in enormous numbers... the problem we are facing is a people overpopulation problem and people not caring for the environment they live in.

we are caretakers of the planet and are doing nothing to better the environment for our children to inherit, it's our inheritance we are messing with here and nothing is being done to nurture nature.

greed is killing us all.
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