Comments on: Is Google the Guardian Angel of Rainforests?

By: Iluminada Avansino

Iluminada Avansino — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:45:41 +0000

Improve performance of Google chrome – Google chrome browser is already loved by many individuals plus they like it to perform better in any ways. Disabling dev tools, JavaScript, hang monitor, metrics, logging, images, phishing filter, popup blocking, etc. could raise the speed of Google chrome.

By: Kash

Kash — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:03:39 +0000

Mel, perhaps it needs to be disrupted. My friend Doctor Horrible said it best: “because the status is not.. quo.”

By: Mal

Mal — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:36:59 +0000

This is nothing more than welfare on a grander scale … Keep the people dependent on the system …. As long as the status quo isn’t disrupted ….

By: Jim Clapp

Jim Clapp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:21:14 +0000

Leaving aside the contentious issue of who, or WHAT is to blame for deforestation and its concomitant climate change, focusing on technologies that would allow citizens of the globe to monitor changes in forests and other ecological disturbances can be quite useful. It’s the global political and economic “climates” that will determine how the technology will be used. At least the technology is becoming available. Whether or not we continue along the infantile practice of “dirtying our own nest” is up to us. We can now view the process in real time and in detail.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:14:15 +0000

Bonsai King,
Though I agree with you that developing countries are not to blame, I disagree with your main premise. A lot of the clear cutting going on today is a result of demand from rich countries. I dont think the clear cutting would otherwise happen on such a scale.
Take growing demand for biofuels in the USA and Europe for example. To make palm oil, a biofuel, Indonesia and Malaysia are clearcutting some of the most pristine rainforest on the planet.
I agree that the forest is a very valuable resource for building materials, heat, etc, but what is currently happening is completely unsustainable and could be devestating for the planet you and I live on.
I’m assuming your idea that clear cutting jungles will solve the world terror problem is intended to be a joke . First of all, there are terrorists in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and a number of other places where there is no jungle.
I agree that rich nations should try to restore their own forests though.

By: bonsai king

bonsai king — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:56:01 +0000

Why is it that developing countries are to blame? The 1st world countries have completely wiped out their forests to aid their development. The developing countries need their forests too. How can developing nations develop without this resource. Clear cutting gives way to efficient large scale agriculture, wood is a very important building material,it is fuel for heating poor people’s homes, and a lot more things. If there is going to be compensation for not using this very valuable resource, then it has to be very expensive. Can the 1st world nations provide that?

One more thing, tropical countries with vast jungles harbor, rebels and terrorists. Simply because they can survive in that environment. Temperate countries with cold climates do not harbor rebels because they will die without proper shelter. Clear cutting jungles and replanting it with forest will solve the world terror problem.

First world countries should set aside a big part of their land for replanting forest!

Every country should give a big portion of their land for trees. It only takes 15 years to reforest a land with proper drip irrigation techniques.

My message to the first world:
Stop blaming the developing nations. You should plant yourselves to remedy the clear cutting you did decades ago. of course the developing nations will also do their part.