Hands off this unique remaining paradise! The world is watching.

Please forward this widely too!

Rainforests will continue to be logged as long as people buy timber from them.

NEVER buy furniture etc made with rainforest timber!
Encourage others to go carefully on the timber used for housing, furniture etc.
Try to encourage Japanese to do the same.

STOP THE DEMAND FOR RAINFOREST TIMBER

Valerie Yule

Pretty good post. I just came by your site and wanted to say
that I have really liked reading your posts. In any case
I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!

Save rainforest.

The Earth is being systematically ravaged....

If the leaders of the global political economy continue to recklessly expand the large-scale production of food to feed an already rapidly growing population, then absolute global human population numbers will continue to skyrocket as they are now. The relentless effort to increase the world's food supply appears to be a primary precipitant of a global human population explosion. A billion people are hungry on Earth in our time. More poor people live in our planetary home today than existed on Earth in the year of my birth.

Why not end large-scale agricultural production and everywhere encourage an increase in sustainable farming practices? Why not fairly and equitably distribute the world's abundant food harvests so that the starving can fed? We have hundreds of millions of people who are starving as well as many too many millions of people who suffer from the various pernicious effects of gluttony. The human family could move toward more healthful living standards for all by redistributing available food resources.

The family of humanity is going to have to stop sleepwalking through life and immediately awaken, however difficult that may be, to the human-driven global challenges threatening human wellbeing and environmental health in our time.

Perhaps necessary change is in the offing because its occurrence must come soon.

Otherwise, I fear, the human community could reap the Biblical whirlwind, a storm blast of epic proportions, that gives rise to some kind of unimaginably huge and destructive global ecological wreckage.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/
www.panearth.org

Preservation of the world's remaining forests is crucial to

blunting the worst impacts of human-propelled climate

change. Forests sequester massive amounts of carbon from

the atmosphere, and help preserve soils and other plants

that also store carbon. Keeping this climate-disrupting

carbon out of the atmosphere may help to keep

temperature increases lower over the coming decades.

We need some sort of tracking system for biofuels. Biofuels causing land use change might end up hurting the environment more than fossil fuels, with carbon payback times up to 400 years. When only sustainable biofuel is bought, no one will think about destroying the rain forests to grow it.