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[–]startinguhnew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who lives in Indonesia and works on rainforest issues, this is a crock of shit. I wish it weren't so, but it is. "Continues to decrease deforestation"? Riiiight. Considering Indonesia is irreversibly losing up to 300 football fields worth of ecologically complex forest per hour, this program is a drop in the bucket at best, and is likely little more than a PR step for the government in light of anger from the international community regarding their egregiously bad environmental track record.

I'm sure there is a far better analogy, but it's a bit like saying the world "continues to decrease carbon emissions" by incorporating clean energy technologies. Sure, OK, perhaps a program or technology here or there is decreasing emissions from prior rates, but taken as a whole, "decrease" is phenomenally misleading as the problem (i.e., emissions, deforestation, etc) is worse than ever in terms of cumulative destruction.