Foxtrot Oscar
05-15-2008, 11:52 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7400911.stm
He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them felling their rainforests. The prince told the BBC's Today programme that the forests provided the earth's "air conditioning system".
Go on Charlie. You tell um me old China.
It's great that the possible future king of England has his head or maybe his heart in the right place.
Could he really make enough of a noise to really make a difference?
He said: "The trouble is the rainforests are home to something like 1.4 billion of the poorest people in the world.
That's really messed up, but why is that?
My answer: The Spanish (Actually some one else pointed this out to me a while ago) take a look at every country those lazy buggers colonized, not one of them has a productive economy.
Can we save the forests?
Will Charlie go nuts and hunt all the natives, thus saving the precious trees?
Fox
He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them felling their rainforests. The prince told the BBC's Today programme that the forests provided the earth's "air conditioning system".
Go on Charlie. You tell um me old China.
It's great that the possible future king of England has his head or maybe his heart in the right place.
Could he really make enough of a noise to really make a difference?
He said: "The trouble is the rainforests are home to something like 1.4 billion of the poorest people in the world.
That's really messed up, but why is that?
My answer: The Spanish (Actually some one else pointed this out to me a while ago) take a look at every country those lazy buggers colonized, not one of them has a productive economy.
Can we save the forests?
Will Charlie go nuts and hunt all the natives, thus saving the precious trees?
Fox