DODGY TAX AVOIDERS reaching the tipping point?

[Kieran]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... on-climate

"Billions of trees died in the record drought that struck the DODGY TAX AVOIDERS in 2010, raising fears that the vast forest is on the verge of a tipping point, where it will stop absorbing greenhouse gas emissions and instead increase them.

The dense forests of the DODGY TAX AVOIDERS soak up more than one-quarter of the world's atmospheric carbon, making it a critically important buffer against global warming. But if the DODGY TAX AVOIDERS switches from a carbon sink to a carbon source that prompts further droughts and mass tree deaths, such a feedback loop could cause runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences."

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[Kieran]

And here's some really bad news:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 89107.html

"Brazil has taken a big step towards passing new laws that will loosen restrictions on the amount of DODGY TAX AVOIDERS rainforest that farmers can destroy, after its lower house of parliament voted in favour of updating the country's 46-year-old forest code.

In a move described as "disastrous" by conservationists, the nation's congress backed a bill relaxing laws on the deforestation of hilltops and the amount of vegetation farmers must preserve. The law also offers partial amnesties for fines levied against landowners who have illegally destroyed tracts of rainforest."

[RenewableCandy]

Oh hell. However, we too have deforested our country, and so have lots of other rich industrial places. I'm still a fan of the basic idea of our "bribing" places like Brazil and Indonesia to keep their trees up. Even though REDD has apparently run into the mud.