DEforestation - Sting, Google, trees

Rising rates of deforestation around the world have a double environmental whammy: There’s the direct impact on habitat loss, soil erosion and ecosystem degradation, then there’s the loss of large areas of carbon sinks leading to decreased storage of greenhouse gasses and accelerating climate change. This Google Earth layer is one of the most graphic representations of the scale of this problem that you are likely to come across. Yes, that huge green stack in the upper right of the image is China.

– see a short clip of Sting and his statements with a screen of one rotation in google earth showing the deforestation impact in a relative stack graph overlay … See Video

There are solutions. The WMF could fund business endeavors that encourage land use in the reipics and Brazil to preserve rather than destroy for productivity. Of all the billions wasted on Oil in Venezuela and Brazil, it makes more global sense to simply pay the piper for the air we breathe and need and more importantly the climate we rely on. Brazil is not just an Oxygen generator, it is a Heat stabilizer, and resource for bio diversity that we are only now gene-mapping enough to understand its enormous value.

We are commencing our support for Tree Funds with some tree installs of our own, and encourage that from anyone interested, our goal is to contribute then see photos of what really happened over time…. we think that Deforestation is under-reported press and it is a dynamic problem.