Comments on: Guyana to get US$200,000 from forest carbon pact

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:50:20 +0000

I continue to emphasize that this scheme is to keep poor countries poor. I am surprised that the Min. of agriculture and Govt. have fallen for this. I am against this carbon credit theory. WE should be using our natural resources to their fullest potential.

By: carolscott

carolscott — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:54:41 +0000

Folks, this is still “chicken feed”. One good consultant could earn that much in a year and I’m not talking about some overseas “bigshot”…sheesh..these folks are humoring us….Call it like you see it…

By: Joe Coxall

Joe Coxall — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:12:35 +0000

yasuman71
Your picture icon looks like Osama talking directly to me, Don’t you go declaring no FATWA on me .OK, I am already fat. LOL

Joe.

By: Sarkar

Sarkar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:27:34 +0000

Maybe Guyana should start holding the rest of the world ‘over a log’ just like OPEC holding the rest of the world ‘over a barrel of oil’. I wonder what quality of preliminary report can be produced with this sum? Toronto has spent more than 10 times this amount on a study to determine whether it will tear down a highway!!!

By: Satish

Satish — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:49:17 +0000

With US President (soon to be ex) George Bush’s obscene examples of stewardship of the world’s environment, I have to be cynical in suspecting that the rich countries will try and pacify poverty stricken countries like Guyana to accept THE SCRAPS FROM THE TABLES OF THE RICH to try and secure the the rainforests for the good of the world.

One foolish SN reader’s comment yesterday was that we should give Brazil an easy time because that country has only cut down HALF OF ITS RAINFORESTS.
He should, of course, find it quite acceptable that Guyana in its turn should also cut down half of its rainforests!!!

In the greedy and selfish world we live in, it is becoming clear that Guyana may indeed have to start its chainsaws to bring attention to focus on Joe Coxall’s simple formula. And of course these payments should be recurring and not one-offs!
What say you President Bush…

All is not lost because this payment is just a for a preliminary report but Guyana Government should hold a hard line to avoid giving away its rainforests for peanuts. Those forests are the lungs of planet earth and the entire planet should contribute to fund its preservation.

By: rdman

rdman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:56:32 +0000

Not only Guyana but other third world countries are sucked dry,with nice words used like, good governance,sustainable developement,debt right off,these third world countries have borrowed so much from the I.M.F/world bank, that their leaders become so corrupted, and in order to stay in power they have to dance to the tune of the creditors, and forced to accept little while their citizens become dirt poor.

By: Lawnman

Lawnman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:45:24 +0000

Hey Joe, glad to see you did the maths. The industrialised nations are getting this acreage of land on the cheap at US2.4 per square mile.

You can’t get that much land here in the UK for less than UK£500,000 or US$1000,000 and all the trees here are gone. We can’t buy a decent house for less than UK£200,000 or US$400,000.

Land with no trees US$1000,000, land with trees US$2.4. per sq mile It seem that the rich nations are serious about pollution.

Going by the figure of US$200,000 and an estimated population in Guyana of 800,000 that works out to 25 cents for every man, woman and child, that’s the value the rich nations put on the Guyanese people.

Here in the UK a person who isn’t working and sleeping all day gets about UK£50 or US$100 a day plus free housing and tax’s paid to do nothing.

As a nation, people over here spend more on food for their pet dogs in a week than the US$200,000 Guyana is to receieve for this project. Doesn’t that tell you something?

By: yasuman71

yasuman71 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:04:58 +0000

US$200,000 is just for preparing a “Readiness Plan (R-Plan) for combating tropical deforestation.” More money is expected after the plan is submitted and examined, I assume. All the same, this initial amount may not be enough.

By: Joe Coxall

Joe Coxall — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:37:54 +0000

$200,000,00 to protect 83,000 sq miles of forest amounts to 2.4 dollars per sq mile. Can these tree huggers be more realistic and pony up 83 million dollars please.

Joe.