"Here's how you lose a forest..."


When the Drug War threatens a national park, destroy the park.
I wonder how many American environmentalists will protest this one.

1 Defying immutable economic laws, governments prohibit a popular drug, making the illegal production and distribution obscenely profitable.


2 Government compounds the problem by attempting to go after the drug at the supply source through eradication, creating a narco-state, where all power structures and political finances depend on either the drug or eradication dollars supplied by the U.S.


3 When eradication efforts intensify, traffickers move to less accessible areas, including clearing rainforests, to grow the plant that's used to produce the drug.


4 Environmentalists complain of the destructiveness of the spraying, so the government tries manual eradication in the national forests, but the traffickers blow up the workers to protect their prohibition-fueled profits.


5 So the Government sprays, destroying the forest to save it. All because prohibition doesn't work.


And just like that, no more Sierra Macarena national park in Columbia.

Sorry about the formatting, lists don't translate well to iBlog. I keep meaning to tweak that, but I haven't done that yet.


— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - August 16, 2006 at 08:32 AM  Tag


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