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Though countries are often eager to trade resources like oil, gas, minerals, timber, and agricultural products, no country in the world sells its water to other countries.
What makes Francis’s appeal different is that his words were directed not so much at the local population, but at the residents of North America and Europe, where demand for timber, biofuels, and agricultural products drives the destruction of the rainforests and imperils the lives of indigenous populations.
Faced with severe supply constraints, Asian economies are increasingly tapping other continents’ fossil fuels, mineral ores, and timber.
Here, the main partner is China, which Russia now supplies with fertilizers, seafood, timber, nonferrous metals, and increasing volumes of crude oil.
Russia’s east should become a provider of relatively high value-added goods, rather than just an exporter of timber, oil, ore, and seafood, as is the case now.
Estonia was indeed poor, and its main exports were scrap metal and timber, but its economy was growing.
The international trade in CITES-listed species is a multibillion-dollar business, ranging from timber to exotic pets to luxury leather products.
“The new presentation,” write Mikhail Danilovich and Robert Coalson, “is devoted not to the repressive forced-labor practices of the Stalin era but to the timber production at the plant and to its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II.”
Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought-weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.
Deforestation for timber and energy precipitate erosion and reduce soil fertility.
Before long, the colonies were exporting wood to the many nations that no longer had the timber they needed for ships, casks, shingles, and other construction materials.
Similarly, changes in the construction industry, which is turning to more efficiently produced products like cross-laminated timber (CLT), can help reduce carbon pollution.
Currently, the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, is being prosecuted for allegedly conspiring to embezzle from a state-owned timber firm, while Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after accusing several Russian officials of large-scale embezzlement, is being tried posthumously on conspiracy charges.
He also has invested in non-traditional asset classes, including real estate, oil, timber, private equity, and venture capital and buyout firms.
Similarly, countries can import fossil fuels, mineral ores, and resources from the biosphere like fish and timber; but they cannot import water, which is essentially local, on a large scale and on a prolonged – much less permanent – basis.
It now pays for nature to stay, as the locals earn their neo-traditional living by ranching oxygen traded on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), and through shipping certified timber and organic palm-hearts to Chile and Europe.
Timber has always been an important building material, and remains so for residential construction in places like the United States, Scandinavia, and parts of Southeast Asia.
While it is unlikely that timber can fully replace any of these materials, new types of engineered wood are making it more competitive.
One of these is cross-laminated timber (CLT), which is made by gluing together layers of wood to create panels that are as strong as steel or concrete, and thus can replace those materials in buildings.
More research is required to determine the precise benefits of using timber to cut CO2 emissions.
In this “new age of timber,” we would grow wood, build with wood, and allow our forests to thrive.
Accused of fraud, Navalny received a five-year prison sentence for allegedly embezzling from Kirovles, a provincial timber company.
Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.
There certainly are economic benefits: farmers receive extra income from selling leaves, seeds, and timber.
One hundred years ago, our trading was limited to the supply of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa.
One hundred years later, our trading consists of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa.
The most basic reason for the rise in natural resource prices is strong growth, especially in China and India, which is hitting against the physical limits of land, timber, oil and gas reserves, and water supplies.
A 12% tax increase has been imposed on gas-guzzling cars, along with reductions for cars with small-engines, and a new 5% tax is being levied on wooden flooring and even chopsticks, which are estimated to use two million cubic meters of timber each year.
Britain’s oak forests allowed it to become the world’s premier naval power during the Age of Sail, when a good timber supply was the key to control of the seas.
And today, oil seems to be going the way of timber and steel, losing its strategic importance.
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