Your Comments: Can Money Grow on Trees?

Entrepreneurs hope giving living trees a value could help save them

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Panorama: Can Money Grow on Trees? was shown on BBC One at 8.30pm on Monday 8 September 2008.

Quite clearly preserving the rainforests is very important for the survival of future generations and everything that can be done to ensure this continues should be done. Although the growing of and the need for food is important we cannot afford to lose the rainforests and all the goodness they naturally produce. I was very concerned to see the burning of the trees which was allowing carbon to pollute the surrounding area which will eventually affect all forms of life. I hope our Government will play its part to ensure that the rainforests are preserved. I thought tonight's Panorama was very interesting which I hope has enlightened viewers to the plight of the rainforests and how important it is that they are looked after and not lost forever through the continuing need for more food in the world.
Steve Fuller

It's all just big business. Oil, war, global warming it's just a reason for the rich to get richer while the world pays the price. Something has to be done the people need to rise and make gov. do what they get paid to do.
James Mcdonald

I had thought that this was what carbon trading had already been doing. Has it really taken this long for the planet's brains to come up with a scheme to pay people to repair some of the damage? And what happens with the small sums that people volunteer when they fly? Has any of that found its way into re-plant schemes? We SO need a coordinated international initiative: a statutory levy on every airline and every passenger would buy a good few trees. An outfit based in US called Trees For The Future reckons to plant a tree for just 10 cents, targeting degraded land and encouraging small-scale intensive agriculture alongside. Maybe it's worth considering the potential of land that's not wanted for beef or soya: the Sahara was once a fertile region, and could be again with desalination and irrigation if powered by the Concentrating Solar Power plants that will soon pepper the Sahara. While obviously restoring the Brazil rainforest is a major priority, it could be that Carbon offset money might go a lot further in such a region as the Sahara than where it's up against major vested interests.
Rachel Lever

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