I applaud the lifting of the logging ban. Modern states do not engage in that sort of thing.
Fund the KFS to plant more trees. Make it autonomous so that it can cut and sell mature trees. It has the potential of beating the Kikuyu Run Safaricom (before it is killed by you-know-who).
Forests are preserved not by assigning a policeman per tree - which is the stupid policy pursued by successive governments - but by robust measures to make it less attractive to the market. Such measures include:
-Lowering the prices of steel & other metals
- removing duty on imported timber (to screw up neighbors forests that are still assigned a guard each! The idiocy of it)
Encouraging the construction industry to use metals in place of timber.
Sensitize people to use the now cheaper & better steel for construction including replacing timber with steel bars
I note that the steel industry has been quite competitive. Cheaper energy might just tip the balance against timber.
Otherwise my people depend on firewood. So until you remove all taxes on cooking gas & make it easily available I'll continue to personally bribe the KFS & Police roadblocks to bring them firewood. So it's clear I bought my community a truck which has been busy smuggling firewood. I pay the gasoline and bribes.
Why?
Because I got disgusted with women being raped in the bus and snake bites! I decided to fuck the system good. I'll be in kenya in March to see how this civil disobedience can be extended to other nonsensical bans. Thank God today the logging ban is gone. There are still bans on transportation of cattle and charcoal. But for charcoal iko sawa. As long as logging is allowed we will encourage people to make own charcoal.
I sincerely hope one of them armchair activists can challenge my reasons. The Developing World will never play fair until they see we are playing really unfairly
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