Ah, but not in the way you think, as Prison Planet points out
Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against “global warming,†a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.
The evictions were ordered by New Forests Company, an outfit that seizes land in Africa to grow trees then sells the “carbon credits†on to transnational corporations. The company is backed by the World Bank and HSBC. Its Board of Directors includes HSBC Managing Director Sajjad Sabur, as well as other former Goldman Sachs investment bankers. (snip)
An Oxfam report documents how the British outfit has worked with the Ugandan government to forcibly expel over 20,000 people from their homes using terror and violence as part of a lucrative scramble for arable land that can be used to satisfy the multi-billion dollar carbon trading ponzi scheme, which is worth $1.8 million a year to the company.
I know what you’re saying: can we really trust Prison Planet? They are, after all, associated with the 9/11 Truther movement and other wacky conspiracy theories. Maybe we should ask the NY Times
According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful†and “voluntary†manner.
People here remember it quite differently.
“I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside,†said Emmanuel Cyicyima, 33. “The houses were being burnt down.â€
Other villagers described gun-toting soldiers and an 8-year-old child burning to death when his home was set ablaze by security officers.
Don’t believe the NY Times? How about the UK Guardian?
Francis Longoli, a small farmer from Kiboga district of central Uganda, is tearful: “I remember my land, three acres of coffee, many trees – mangoes and avocados. I had five acres of bananas, 10 beehives, two beautiful permanent houses. My land gave me everything. People used to call me ‘omataka’ – someone who owns land. Now that is no more. I am one of the poorest now,” he says.
Longoli and his family of six lost everything last year when, with three months notice, the Ugandan government evicted him and thousands of others from the Mubende and Kiboga districts to make way for the UK-based New Forests Company to plant trees, to earn carbon credits and ultimately to sell the timber.
Today, the village school in Kiboga is a New Forests Company headquarters. More than 20,000 people have been made homeless and Longoli rents a small house in Lubaali village. He says he cannot go back for fear of being attacked.
We’ve heard the Warmist talking point about anthropogenic global warming creating “climate refugees” for a couple of years now, and, I guess they are right, because we see 20,000 who were pushed off their land, violently, because of the beliefs in the anthropogenic global warming community. These people were displaced, violently, to grow trees for carbon credits. The Oxfam report also states
….that much foreign investment actually hurts developing economies, taking fertile land out of production, weakening a country’s ability to feed itself, and displacing tens of thousands of citizens with no recourse or compensation.
All in the name of the climate change hoax. This can be laid directly at the feet of people like Al Gore and his unhinged cult.
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What kind of trees? Certain trees thought to be great for ethanol production have been shown to be highly expensive and energy suckers.
But, if you are talking “native” trees??? Seems they cut down native trees for their own version…
Christine, a farmer in her mid-40s, who lived in Kiboga district before the evictions, says: “All our plantations were cut down – we lost the banana and cassava. We lost everything we had. They won’t let us back in to look for the things we left behind.”
But then, it is very easy to paint these climate refugees as CRIMINALS….
NFC responded with a statement saying it is taking Oxfam’s allegations “extremely seriously” and is conducting an “immediate and thorough” investigation.
“Our understanding of these resettlements is that they were legal, voluntary and peaceful and our first-hand observations of them confirmed this,” says the statement.
“This has been corroborated on a number of occasions by meticulous audits of the company by highly respected international organisations including the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) and the IFC (International Finance Corporation, part of World Bank). The FSC concluded that ‘officials consider Namwasa one of their most peaceful and successful experiences in encouraging illegal encroachers to voluntarily leave central forestry reserves and would like to use the model for controversial areas in the future’.”
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