Look Beyond the Rainforest

IDN: It is human development, or at least the quest for it, which caused the conversion of billions of hectares of forests into man-made deserts. It prompted, in the middle of the 19th century, the French novelist Chateaubriand to state that "forests precede civilizations, deserts follow them". In other words, human beings are the only desert making species. To reverse the tide and change such an inherent habit, we must think and operate outside of the "forest" box. We must look beyond the rainforest...

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