Thank you for this excellent research, and for getting to farmlandgrab.org. This quote is exactly how these dreamers think: "we can protect nature without abandoning economic production — enhancing our biodiversity, livelihoods, and climate all at once." When pigs can fly! It amounts to the worst form of colonialism ever invented, not just pulling out the resources (material or human) but snatching the land and then RUINING it by corporate schemes. Planting trees isn't such a great idea, see: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.2727 As well, part of the climate problem is that the planet is getting darker (lower albido) which ADDS to warming! It is so sad that these corporate dreamers/schemers have been let loose on Nature.
Thank you for this excellent research, and for getting to farmlandgrab.org. This quote is exactly how these dreamers think: "we can protect nature without abandoning economic production — enhancing our biodiversity, livelihoods, and climate all at once." When pigs can fly! It amounts to the worst form of colonialism ever invented, not just pulling out the resources (material or human) but snatching the land and then RUINING it by corporate schemes. Planting trees isn't such a great idea, see: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.2727 As well, part of the climate problem is that the planet is getting darker (lower albido) which ADDS to warming! It is so sad that these corporate dreamers/schemers have been let loose on Nature.