Thursday 01/23/2003 Clearwater, FL Day 2729

What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk. Working hard on the Imerys price increase. Very cold weather coming. Talked to Chris about the Super Bowl. Watched ER with Kay.

GAIA- Planet Management: 

871. Despite its need for wood, the developing world’s share of global trade is projected to rise only a little by 2000.

872. A source of revenue: When large numbers of large logs are taken from a Southeast Asia forest, at least half of the remaining trees are injured beyond recovery.

873. Yet the logger does not care, as long as there is enough forest to last for the next few years.

874. Governments could be much tougher to enforcing less harmful harvesting techniques, but the need for hard cash often means that they fail to see their forests as sources of future revenue.

875. Fortunately a partial breakthrough is on the way, in the form of increased wood processing: the veneer sheet earns several times more foreign exchange than a raw log, thus reliving pressure to exploit every forest tract.