Saturday, June 30, 2007
Illegal Logging
Just read an article in an Indonesian newspaper this morning on how the authorities successfully busted an illegal logging business... Well done!!
However, I could not help but wondering why they decided to destroy the logs. The logs were ready to use. A log is a log, and I can think of better uses for those logs rather than destroying them.
Why should they destroy them? The trees already fallen, and the logs produced from the trees would be better of be used rather than burned. When the illegal logs are burned rather than used, then we will cut even more trees just to use "legal" logs. Sell them to contractors and use the money for the poor or to build undeveloped areas... there are many of those in Indonesia..
I don't know, maybe my thinking is too bottom-line oriented?
However, I could not help but wondering why they decided to destroy the logs. The logs were ready to use. A log is a log, and I can think of better uses for those logs rather than destroying them.
Why should they destroy them? The trees already fallen, and the logs produced from the trees would be better of be used rather than burned. When the illegal logs are burned rather than used, then we will cut even more trees just to use "legal" logs. Sell them to contractors and use the money for the poor or to build undeveloped areas... there are many of those in Indonesia..
I don't know, maybe my thinking is too bottom-line oriented?
# posted by indra : 4:39 AM
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Dude you really believe they "destroyed" the log? They probably destroyed the logs by taking them home, and destroyed them to the highest bidder.
You know, I was wondering the same thing when I saw the picture of logs being burned by the officials. I wonder if the picture are fabricated through photoshop...
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