I have been monitoring the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the related organizations for some time as a result of their involvement in a case which looked suspiciously like patent piracy. Not long after they were conducting a campaign to extract more money from America to support activities which looked to not be in our national interests.

Their latest attempt to implement a massive transfer of our wealth seems to be wrapped in use of carbon credits.

I would love to see poor countries create wealth and pull themselves up to the same standard of living we enjoy. But I am very much opposed to further impoverishing America to put them on the dole. It is one thing to give someone a hand up and a very different thing to make them wards of the state. It seems like most of our foreign aid only lines some shyster's pocket.

http://www.physorg.com/news163361427.html

"Carbon payments payments could protect orangutans, pygmy elephants in Borneo
June 4th, 2009
A new report published today provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, is one of the first to offer quantitative evidence linking the drive to reduce carbon emissions from forests with the push to preserve threatened mammal biodiversity."

Ronald J. Riley,

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