Posted on 06/02/2011 8:23:22 AM PDT by CNSNews
(CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, told a UN energy conference in 2009 that a global wealth redistribution program was needed to keep poor people in developing countries from using their own forest resources.
“What we’ve got to do is find ways to map out the affected lands, to develop plans for addressing them, find economic models in which the people who are driven to do these things to try to raise the livelihoods of their families, find alternative means,” Bryson said in laying out his vision for stopping people in poor countries from cutting down forests.
“Training of peoples, to maybe help in supporting this, development of law enforcement regimes, development of strong governance practices, all of those things have to be done,” Bryson continued.
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Another abomination of an Obama nomination.
Another green marxist joins the Obama one world parade.
“development of law enforcement regimes, development of strong governance practices, all of those things have to be done,”
All to save trees. What a cruel & evil man.
Academic noise from another one who’s never had a job.
What we NEED to do, is stay out of everybody else’s business.
Stealing from the productive to give freebies to the lazy bums of the Obama Collective.
All to save trees. What a cruel & evil man.
Funny thing that. Communists - Socialists - Anarchists used to HATE Nixon for merely “implying” that police powers of the state be increased to stifle REAL communist and racial and hippie/anti-war violent protests back in the 1960’s when REAL cities were being burned.
I have another idea.
Why don’t we let the people in other countries solve their own problems , with their own funds, and we keep our opinions and our funds for Americans who need help?
From the prodoctive according to their greed, to the collective according to their need.
If they had solid property rights in the third world, no one would cut their own trees unless it made sense. The fault is with collectivism.
"Solid property rights" would mean you had the right to cut your own trees, and to shoot anybody coming on your land to take them without your OK.
N.C. Church Fined $4,000 for Excessive Tree Pruning
A local church in Charlotte, North Carolina, learned the hard way that arborilogical endeavors can be expensive after receiving an excessive fine for improperly pruning its trees. The city of Charlotte fined the Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church $100 per branch cut for excessive pruning, amounting to a total violation of $4,000.
“I just couldn’t believe it when I heard it,” remarked Eddie Sales, whom the church hires to trim the trees on the property surrounding its building. “We trim our trees back every three years all over our property, and this is the first time we have been fined.”
Fox News reported, “The fine will be dropped if the church replaces each of the improperly pruned trees, said Tom Johnson, senior urban forester for [the] city of Charlotte Land Development Division.”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7690-nc-church-fined-4000-for-excessive-tree-pruning
Tell him to go first in re-distributing HIS wealth! Then watch how fast he will shut up!
That’s just utter BS (the city’s attitude, not you). If it’s private property, the church should be able to cut them all down and lay astroturf if it wants.
PapaBear! You and I agree on something!
It’s always seemed harsh to me to chastize those who would touch the virgin forests surrounding poor people, whereas concerning the deforestation in Europe and North Amerca that partly led to the Industrial Revolution, etc., is all well and good for us now that we’re rich and the rest of the world isn’t. Until I remember that enviros hate civilization, in which case it seems perfectly logical.
“Until I remember that enviros hate civilization...”
And, I should add, would ultimately prefer us to re-forest ourselves, but will settle for the poor of the world not to get as rich as us.
With the Barry circus in charge there will be a lot of poor Americans cutting wood.
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