Food Distribution Post-Cold War, War, and International Borders

[Ziggurat]

Any increase in forest coverage in North America and Europe is a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of tropical rain-forest being lost.

Perhaps, but it does suggest how to make progress: increased wealth. It's no coincidence that the regions with the most wealth are also the regions that are reforesting.

 

[Orphia Nay]

The leaders of Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania met in the Albanian capital Tirana on Saturday 21 December 2019 to advance EU-supported plans for free movement of people and goods in their region to boost trade and investment.

"All Western Balkan countries, blighted by wars in the 1990s, aspire to join the European Union, but their accession has been slowed down by Brexit and lack of domestic reforms."

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said, "The (EU) Commission is readying grants of 1.2 billion euros to our countries to help us implement our accords."

"Lifting barriers and border checkpoints would speed cross-border trade [and ease the labour shortage] and allow foreign tourists to cross the region without waiting at frontiers, the leaders said."

"If Chinese tourists land at Belgrade airport, they should be able to cross freely in all the countries of the region," said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of North Macedonia.

chttps://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/12/21/world/europe/21reuters-westernbalkans-cooperation.html

 

[The Norseman]

Perhaps, but it does suggest how to make progress: increased wealth. It's no coincidence that the regions with the most wealth are also the regions that are reforesting.

No, it is just coincidence. Face it, capitalism caused the problem and it cannot simply be bought out of existence.

 

[Roboramma]

No, it is just coincidence. Face it, capitalism caused the problem and it cannot simply be bought out of existence.

That's a rather large coincidence.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Perhaps, but it does suggest how to make progress: increased wealth. It's no coincidence that the regions with the most wealth are also the regions that are reforesting.

No, it is just coincidence. Face it, capitalism caused the problem and it cannot simply be bought out of existence.

That's a rather large coincidence.

Places like Ethiopia are planting millions of trees in a nationwide campaign. I mentioned that here a while back.

In the 1980s, capitalism/socialism/biddleonianism/whateveryouwanttocallit
helped Ethiopia develop - i.e. improve health, equality, choice, economy, agriculture, education, etc.

Money helps with all these things, as does philanthropy, politics, etc.

The Sustainable Development Goals all work together to make all our lives better.

The hardest part is when there is hardship and desperation that leads to anger and violence and retribution. Those things perpetuate each other.

 

[Roboramma]

Places like Ethiopia are planting millions of trees in a nationwide campaign. I mentioned that here a while back.

In the 1980s, capitalism/socialism/biddleonianism/whateveryouwanttocallit
helped Ethiopia develop - i.e. improve health, equality, choice, economy, agriculture, education, etc.

Money helps with all these things, as does philanthropy, politics, etc.

The Sustainable Development Goals all work together to make all our lives better.

The hardest part is when there is hardship and desperation that leads to anger and violence and retribution. Those things perpetuate each other.

Just FYI with respect to economic growth and de/reforestation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5238442/

We include in our specification the difference in squared income per capita levels in order to test for a U-shape relationship between the level of development of a country and forest cover at the border and also entertain threshold regressions in order to allow for nonlinearities in the deforestation Kuznets curve. Our results support the existence of a leveling out of the relationship between forest cover and income per capita with a turning point located at a per capita income level of roughly 5,500 PPP-adjusted 2005 international dollars. This turning point corresponds approximately to the per capita income of Guatemala. We perform a series of robustness checks to ensure that the results found are not driven by particular characteristics of our research design.

In other words at very low income levels, as income increases deforestation increases, this levels out and reverses at around the per capita income level of Guatemala.

This particular study looked at data worldwide (based on a satelite survey) and compares forest cover across border regions in order to avoid biases.

 

[theprestige]

Places like Ethiopia are planting millions of trees in a nationwide campaign. I mentioned that here a while back.

In the 1980s, capitalism/socialism/biddleonianism/whateveryouwanttocallit
helped Ethiopia develop - i.e. improve health, equality, choice, economy, agriculture, education, etc.

Money helps with all these things, as does philanthropy, politics, etc.

The Sustainable Development Goals all work together to make all our lives better.

The hardest part is when there is hardship and desperation that leads to anger and violence and retribution. Those things perpetuate each other.

Ethiopia is receiving billions of dollars in aid from capitalist economies. It's no coincidence that it can afford to plant a lot of trees.

Capitalists pay poor people to plant trees, both at home and abroad.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Just FYI with respect to economic growth and de/reforestation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5238442/


In other words at very low income levels, as income increases deforestation increases, this levels out and reverses at around the per capita income level of Guatemala.

This particular study looked at data worldwide (based on a satelite survey) and compares forest cover across border regions in order to avoid biases.

Nice, thanks for that, Roboramma.

Ethiopia is receiving billions of dollars in aid from capitalist economies. It's no coincidence that it can afford to plant a lot of trees.

Capitalists pay poor people to plant trees, both at home and abroad.

Yes, that's your way of saying what I was saying.

 

[theprestige]

Yes, that's your way of saying what I was saying.

Your posting style is sufficiently oblique and non-responsive that I have zero confidence that this is true. To the extent that it is true, I suspect it's just papering over a deep and fundamental disagreement.