GLOBAL DEFORESTATION TREATY DIDN'T EVEN RATE A MENTION AT PARIS CLIMATE CONFERENCE

The Paris summit on climate change, like all the ones before it, was nothing more than a superficial talkfest which as expected has totally sidestepped the issue of deforestation, a much greater enemy and threat to mankind than a marginal increase in industrial carbon omissions.

We've heard it all before umpteen times, or to the effect of - if every country in the world puts a price on carbon and shuts down every coal fired power station overnight, Bob's Your Uncle, we'll save the world.

Doesn't matter how much equatorial and sub-equatorial rainforest for example which is annihilated in places like Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Congo, as long as we tax carbon - "she'll be right mate". Of course I am being sarcastic.

By far the greatest extent of climate change which has resulted from man-made and "unnatural" activities can be attributed to the destruction of old growth forest in the five countries I have mentioned and various other ones as well. It's not hard to work out - trees, especially older trees, are the best filter of carbon dioxide there is.

Across the world every single day, football stadiums of old growth rainforest continues to be destroyed. So much of it is situated in dirt poor third world countries where the only escape from bankruptcy is for governments, or regimes, to give in to the lure of globalization and effectively hand control of their country's resources to foreign governments, companies and corporations.

Nicaragua and Costa Rica for instance owes that much money to China that they may as well be part of China.

 

If Chinese president Xi Jinping gets his way, millions of hectares of rainforest in these two countries will be destroyed as a result of immensely misplaced industrialization, just so China gets payed backed.

There has to be a better way to achieve that. This is just one example of what "isn't" being talked about by the world's political elite at any climate change talkfest.