I think global warming is the biggest hoax.....and I'm going to make a ton.....I'm such a CAPITALIST PIG....imho
You can't find article on CC's without the author mentioning SL....
The proposed carbon credit
To begin with, the carbon credit is not a commodity like rice in which people could trade in competition with others or to the exclusion of all else. The concept is one of indirect conservation which would minimize the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere and thus prevent climate change. Readers may recall that recently I wrote about the carbon cycle in nature and how any shift of equilibrium would shift the balance and lead to excess accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere. This is one direct consequence of severe deforestation and other activities which are carried out by man through, excessive logging, shifting method of brush and burn cultivation, mining, the extension of human settlements, environmental degradation, (Bormeh) etc. All the above result in large green losses and the pouring into the atmosphere of pollutants. The reduced amount of green vegetation becomes incapable of absorbing a the carbon and other noxious compounds that are poured into the atmosphere eventually leading to the green house effect that I described in a previous article.
There is a scheme under consideration which is an inducement for us to protect our environment and preserve our forests; the more forests that we reserve, the higher the amount of carbon compounds that are absorbed. The quantum of financial compensation is therefore directly related to the estimated quantity of carbon that would be absorbed. We already have one of the few remaining rainforests in the sub region and that is the Gola Forest in the south-eastern part of the country. Part of this unique forest extends into neighbouring Liberia. Readers may recall that recently President Ernest Bai Koroma and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia signed a protocol establishing the area as a Peace Park. President Koroma also plans to declare the rest of Gola as a National Park. At the moment we have a Gola Forest Conservation Programme which is managed jointly by the government of Sierra Leone, the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone CSSL, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in the United Kingdom and the communities of the seven chiefdoms surrounding Gola. The forest is preserved in perpetuity; the communities receive compensation for loss of income by not allowing logging, mining, farming and other causes of deforestation. There is to be a Trust Fund from which support for the Programme and the development needs of the communities for example education, health welfare etc. would be met. Under the carbon exchange scheme as outlined above the government of Sierra Leone could receive financial compensation which could be poured into the project.
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