News Headline
Why zero deforestation is compatible with a reduction in poverty
Source
Guardian (UK)
Publication Date
2014-09-08
Jonathon Porritt, the environmentalist, last week attacked fellow Greens who back the ambition of “zero deforestation”’. He accused colleagues of “absolutism”, holding back development, perpetuating poverty and even colonialism. He suggested that the aim of stopping deforestation is simplistic and unrealistic.