Originally Posted by
WingNut60
Except no one really cares how the 2nd bit is carried out, or if it's carried out at all.
Planting a butt load of trees (in return for a butt load of money) is just a license to double the felling rate 5 km down the road. It frequently finances the felling.
You don't really think that giving money to a Malaysian (or Indonesian or otherwise) logger will actually result in a reduced felling rate, do you?
And you don't think that the government officials tasked with monitoring the end result really give a sh..t about said end result do you?
Never said it actually worked :P just pointing out it's a fancy term, lol.