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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (805)	4/12/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 36917

<<My somewhat general response was that whatever form it took it had to be non-violent, create local centers of education and credit, and essentially act within the system in such a way that the ruling elite were not overtly challenged and that change came non-provocatively and incrementally.>> This is way off topic, but your comment made me remember a case I read about a couple years ago. The Haitian government was looking for a way to slow deforestation which had been causing massive soil erosion. They had tried everything to get people to stop cutting down trees, including making it a crime. So they hired an anthropologist. The anthropologist came back with a simple solution after doing a field study. The solution: cash incentives to grow trees, payable after so many years for so many trees on their property. Suddenly there were thousands of budding tree nurseries all over the island. There were even cases where the police had to arrest some people for violently defending their trees from would be tree-poachers! This very simple solution ended up costing the government of Haiti less than all of its studies on how to solve the problem. I just always thought it was a funny story about how simple solutions are sometimes the best. :)