Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau (Sumatra Province Eastern), August 23. The billboards along roadsides anninciano the world a new era. The Provincial Governor and 'statuary pictured posing with the President of the Republic, smiling in front of endless plantations of palm oil. And 'the ideology of the new frontier, and the new gold rush' started, adventurers and desperate rush to collect cash and hopes were born dead. Huge luxury hotels line the streets. Flaunt marble and glass, but no water comes out of taps, and rugs, made soon, are already beginning to rot. This time, however, 'the forest will not be able' to take his revenge, taking up new spaces sottrattigli. Just 'cause here, now, the forest there is no' more '. E 'has now been eradicated long ago. Pekambaru 's only a step, and the epicenter of the new race but the frontier and 'now moved away. And more 'than a border and' a small archipelago of islands surrounded by bulldozers. And the march continues. "The Golden Crop" advertises the state broadcaster, the harvest of gold. But it 's bad fusion of gold, made of carbon that goes for the atmosphere. In fact, the expansion of plantations has a specific target: the land is not "productive." That is, the swamp forests.
shame that these forests, biodiversity as well as hosting a 'single hatch an immense wealth for the planet: the peat. For millennia, the organic material in forest and marsh is 'accumulated on the ground, creating a layer of peat from two to twenty meters and more'. And 'one of the most' big tanks carbon on the planet. About 550 billion tons of carbon are sequestered in the peat bogs around the world, about 75% of all carbon in the atmosphere, or the equivalent of global carbon emissions in about 70 years. Peat and 'soup of water. but when it is burned or dried, is in contact with oxygen and decompose, releasing carbon to the atmosphere. And others will pay damages. Of the 27.1 million acres of swamp forests in Southeast Asia, 12 million have already been deforested and mostly drained. One third of the peat is in the tropics, and this 60% is located in Indonesia: 22.5 million hectares of peat bogs, but the smiling face of the Governor leaves no doubt that the assault and 'already' begun.
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