Would you invest on reforestation in the tropics?
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I would invest gladly but the returns I would want would not be financial.  I would want a piece of it, it would never be violated by greedy Western nations, it would grow and thrive adding to the worlds ability to survive the crap we pump into the air we breathe and it would help to preserve what should be preserved for our own survival and for future generations that may come.
364279
There's entirely too much information available on this subject.  I suggest you start with a simple internet search with using words or phrases like 'tropical deforestation issues' or 'impact of tropical deforestation'.  There's a ton of info to find.  Also try your local library.  I'm sure there are tons of magazine and journal articles written on the subject.
305997
Well I live in south America near to a rain forest area  and the people build their houses with wood and strong roots of trees and the cealing is made whit palmier trees leaves.\n\nbut there are many ways to do, for more information you can see this houses (put Madidi +Bolivia (Images on googe)
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YES YES YES!\n\nThe only way to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil in the near future is to drill for more oil HERE!\n\nIf the tree huggers don't like it tell them to stop driving cars, using electricity and heating their homes so there is more oil for the rest of us.\n\n****\n\nHey Gonzo, If by conservation you mean saving every bug, animal and tree on the face of the earth so you can have a pretty view as you drive your SUV through the country yeah I've heard of that. If left up to you folks we’d all be living out in the woods singing kumbuya hugging the trees, eating mushrooms, berries and getting eaten by wolves and bears. \n\nThis nation needs energy. Currently our best source of energy comes from oil, coal and natural gas. Now, if you can come up with a better way to get those things out of the ground with out harming all of your bugs and trees I'd love to hear about it. After we're done pulling all the resources out, so you can be nice safe and warm in your home.  I'm all in favor of planting trees there, they do grow back you know...  As for me when I have to choose between heating my home and saving a tree or the squirrel that lives in that tree. The tree and the squirrel are going to loose every time.
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Rainforest destruction and Global warming.
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Plant a tree, recycle, sleep
1186801
OK come to the Philippines we have a very large comerical garden raising land scape plants sounds like you will fit in.
528167
Condition that they shud be planted again...else they are no longer renewable source with rapid destruction of forests. As they grow again n again they are renewable.
214319
I would say no. Countries that are more developed like ours are going to suffer, intially. While poorer, more underdeveloped countries will reap more benefits, at least in the earlier stages.
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I think it would help in your theory,due to more greenhouse gasses would be assimilated by more trees.\n\npart of the problem with global warming is that much of the planets eco systems are being destroyed without being replendished (south america tree harvesting)
684508
No.  My children, and their future children are much more important to me than money.\n\n'but I would continue to research the potential organism to "fix it", so it wouldn't cause the downfall of humanity... and hopefully still make some money.
1075825
Rainforest occurs in the moist tropics and cooler temperate, high rainfall zones.
854900
Uh...people already live in the rain forest.  Have forever and a day.  You have to be a hunter gatherer type.  You would spend a decent amount of time just acquiring food, water and shelter.  Unless you start cutting them down and putting in farmland.
570815
Well it's in the tropics.  It rains a lot.  And it's a forest.  Hmmm... Not sure.
996219
Whatever makes you think that bt cultivation is ineffective in the tropics? BT cotton is just as effective in the tropics as anywhere else.
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Generally, yes.  The closer you are to the equator, the warmer the climate is.
953174
Boy your full of intersting questons today. Welll i guess it would be possible.  But the queston is would it benifit the United States. It would add about 20 million people and lots of pollution and damaged plumming.  I belive we could buy it annex it, and make it a state, fix its problems clean it up and secure it for about 5 Trillion dollars. But it would be a bad move on the united states part because the new land would be a burden to its econimc prosperity. Over all it wouldnt be wroth it.  It would be a great blunder of the century.