Ecuador is promoting the conservation initiative of the Yasuni National Park, which is basically get more revenue for the state oil retaining underground, compared to those obtained by the exploitation of oil companies from taxes. The project has had difficulties, but today with relevant offers from countries like Germany to provide about 50 million per year for the trust to be administered by UNDP.
estimated that oil exploration would Yasuni the Ecuadorian State about 350 million dollars in ten years by paying taxes, it must be reduced to mitigation and actions against any damage to the park and the Amazonian ecosystem , so that income is reduced. Ecuadorian makers of this initiative seek to overcome the amount they could obtain through taxes, but also if they succeed, the potential value of Yasuni increase and may be subject to new negotiations resulting in more revenue for Ecuador.
We see in this case and others, that the logic of the extraction of natural resources is far from absolute and there are a number of alternatives for revenue, and conserve resources and ecosystems that now for themselves and have a value for environmental balance, which can be transformed into economic value and generate income for referring them to social priorities.
In a country called Peru ...
Until that happens with our northern neighbor and receives Cochabamba representatives from around the world at the Earth Summit in Peru, the primary export model advocates do not have the slightest ability to understand natural resources now have a value when they can no longer be exploited, and ecosystems are global reservation each day will have greater bargaining power in the international arena. That is, our modern rulers and their press, they do not realize that goes against the story, as in many other subjects, are anchored to the country in outdated debates. We come
eighteen years hearing the same speech bigoted and mindless policies of integration and sustainable development. We with governments to justify and deepen a scheme of investment and resource extraction that is no different in almost nothing of what happened in past centuries. There is no novelty or creativity in the discourse and extractive action, showing some signs of compression of the magnitude of the problem as a country and world we face.
Social protests in various parts of the country in Bagua stripped nature of the model and the intention of the continuity, will be justified given and does not change the orientation while those who do not win elections but they end up ruling, decisions printed of State. It is time that Peruvians do not assume that any investment is helpful, there are cases where it is preferable and can be more productive non-exploitation of resources that the mandatory consultation of those affected is essential that the world is going towards a new paradigm of relationship with the natural power and media hide from us.
makers responsibility to keep the country in a worn and even unworkable logic is enormous. The economic and international trade with growing crisis in a row, once needs to exploit all the resources the planet still holds. Peruvian governments since 1992 have voluntarily fallen into this trap of capitalism, assuming that the only way to resource value is open or pierce the earth, to comply with minimum tax, or even think about raising taxes on the exploitation of natural resources. Abdication is not only economic, but involves stop thinking to serve pockets of others, and some Peruvians who take their slice of it.
Aunt Mary will be impractical if not start from the basics range extractive and policy related to agriculture, social expectations and the natural environment. The action of the people of Islay, Cocachacra, Bagua and elsewhere is an expression of the urgency of arriving at a different model of development. On the right, conservatism and neoliberalism, there is no idea other than the manipulation of the population by external agents and radical groups, his speech is empty, arrogant and only appeals to the money immediately and misleading figures to justify. While global and national, for several years to develop alternatives to our natural potential in a context in which climate change policy focus, allows us to produce more resources from a non-immediate. Alexander Sack
April 22 2010
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