http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/ Afrikans Eating Like Silverback Gorillas Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-54 As if 830 000 ha would slip under the radar. « all of my favorite missions were ill-defined Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:38:11 +0000 http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-54 [...] you can get rainforest in Ecuador for a fraction of that. Some people blogged about it, mostly to very helpfully suggest that forests are precious and sacred and should never have a price tag. But the lasting message was [...] [...] you can get rainforest in Ecuador for a fraction of that. Some people blogged about it, mostly to very helpfully suggest that forests are precious and sacred and should never have a price tag. But the lasting message was [...]

]]> http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-49 Andrew Piotrowski Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:34:58 +0000 http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-49 ok, you say that the all this private property and capitalism and individualism and greed must die, but if you haven't noticed, it won't be doing so anytime soon. It won't die and if while idealists like yourself continue to talk about a day in which we don't sell the land to anybody and just "let it be" (thanks to John and Paul for that one), we're gonna all wake up and realize that these lands have just been taken over by loggers, hunters, and people who are going to "rape" the land. Why shouldn't we have a coalition of like-minded students like myself preserve this land by pooling our money together in a fund to save some wildlife and be a part of preservationism? I've been looking all over the internet trying to find a fund for this land since reading an article about it in The Economist, but to no avail. The damn WWF hasn't set anything up yet either, although I see the folks on facebook are trying (which is a good start, but we need some action guys!). So lets not sit idly by and talk about the ideal utopian society where these lands are left alone by the government for preservation's sake. Hell it'd be a lot easier if Cameroon's govt. wasn't money hungry and would rather say no to anyone who wanted to stake a claim in this land, but that's simply not the case. So why not do something while ya still can? ok, you say that the all this private property and capitalism and individualism and greed must die, but if you haven’t noticed, it won’t be doing so anytime soon. It won’t die and if while idealists like yourself continue to talk about a day in which we don’t sell the land to anybody and just “let it be” (thanks to John and Paul for that one), we’re gonna all wake up and realize that these lands have just been taken over by loggers, hunters, and people who are going to “rape” the land. Why shouldn’t we have a coalition of like-minded students like myself preserve this land by pooling our money together in a fund to save some wildlife and be a part of preservationism? I’ve been looking all over the internet trying to find a fund for this land since reading an article about it in The Economist, but to no avail. The damn WWF hasn’t set anything up yet either, although I see the folks on facebook are trying (which is a good start, but we need some action guys!). So lets not sit idly by and talk about the ideal utopian society where these lands are left alone by the government for preservation’s sake. Hell it’d be a lot easier if Cameroon’s govt. wasn’t money hungry and would rather say no to anyone who wanted to stake a claim in this land, but that’s simply not the case. So why not do something while ya still can?

]]> http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-28 Irreverence » Blog Archive » Concessions and Free Market Conservation Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:20:39 +0000 http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-28 [...] is easy to be high-minded and suggest that where the preservation of the earth’s most precious natural environments are [...] [...] is easy to be high-minded and suggest that where the preservation of the earth’s most precious natural environments are [...]

]]> http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-27 MoreLyrical Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:02:00 +0000 http://afrikans.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/no-dollar-value-to-the-black-lands/#comment-27 [hefty applause] Where have you been all of my life?! lol. As one man once said on Lauryn Hill's Mis-education album, "You should be put on a blow horn and sent through the streets..." <br/>We're so caught up in our own demise that we don't even take the time to open our eyes to realize we're raping our own Mother, the earth, blind. We just keep on fcuking Mother Nature...keep on fcuking with her and she's send our asses back to where we came from. We keep fighting against the land and soon the land'll fight back. A spoiled child barely knows a Mother's impact... [hefty applause] Where have you been all of my life?! lol. As one man once said on Lauryn Hill’s Mis-education album, “You should be put on a blow horn and sent through the streets…”
We’re so caught up in our own demise that we don’t even take the time to open our eyes to realize we’re raping our own Mother, the earth, blind. We just keep on fcuking Mother Nature…keep on fcuking with her and she’s send our asses back to where we came from. We keep fighting against the land and soon the land’ll fight back. A spoiled child barely knows a Mother’s impact…

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