Here you go, Col - educated yourself : )

http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/165/Cameroon.html

Oh col.....still full of hate:) Iam sure the author will forgive you.

You sound like this man sometimes:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH0Et56Hxt4

Anyway, the planet is still getting smaller. Soon there will be nothing left:) and the exploitation of the second and third world peoples rise to western fame, will be of no conquerable guilt.

100 hundred years, ay! Co2 will replace O2....interesting:) I hope we all evolve in time to breath it:)

LEA

It's distressing that this article about actions of such profound consequence and imminence can only muster so few comments. Some transient rot about Julie Gillard's political fetishes, or similar, would generate dozens upon dozens more. Our capacity for sustainability is clearly reflected in what interests us most. The prognosis is not good.

And so what if an internet petition might not work. How long does signing it take to accomplish? 30 seconds? And how much does doing so prevent any other personal action from being taken? What if it might help in some way? And how does sitting at the keyboard feeling smugly impotent help in any way at all?

Good luck Katja. I'll sign even if the action might be unlikely to be of any great help. Sometimes we have to simply support what those at the fore-front of a particular significant action ask of us.

That said a means for assisting reciprocity between myriad response actions and a convergent aim toward the common fundamentals of all of these problems needs to be developed.

wallumi,
the reason I don't support this petition is because it naively validates the rapacious system that's responsible for the problem. It's a band-aid job. The problem is capitalism, and its indifference to all ecological, logical, ethical and ultimately survival issues. If you stop it in the rainforests of Cameroon it will reek havoc elsewhere for a time, but soon return, especially as fossil fuels, exotic timbers etc. become more scarce. It's just a matter of time; the Cameroon rainforests, deep oceans, the Great Barrier Reef... They'll all fall like dominoes in the fullness of time. I'm not interested in giving a rapacious system kudos for a small, grudging and temporary mercy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_issues
It's just feel goodism, flaky greeny accommodation.
The mortal enemy, for rainforests, biodiversity and humans, is capitalism. When we start addressing the disease, rather than the symptoms, I'll get behind it.