WTO Public Forum 2006

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The United Nations Environment Programme\'s (UNEP) Millenniem Assessment report makes it clear that what we are doing to the world at the moment is unsustainable. The environmental impact is excessively high. UNEP also points out, in its assessment, that humankind must give \'full value\' to the services which nature provides, if we are to solve this problem. One of nature\'s services which we are busy destroying, are nature\'s carbon guzzlers, the world\'s forests, and this while we continue to make ever more green house gases. The scientists tell us that climate change is the the highest priority of all. If these forests were man made machines, there would be no question that we would be paying real money for the air cleaning services they provide. Because they are the products of billions of years of evolution, incorporating a living technology far far in advance of anything humankind can possibly make, we give them no financial value at all. More perversely still... [view message]

Free8Fair at 17:10 on 9/25/06

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WTOadmin at 11:15 on 9/22/06