deforestation

The tactics used at the time — deforestation and afforestation, cutting off water supplies, raids on Palestinian communities — are still being applied today, with the addition of 21st-century weapons and a far more sophisticated state apparatus.

“We must learn from the countries that are successfully slowing deforestation,” said Mikaela Weisse, Global Forest Watch Director at the World Resources Institute.

But the activist also wants to highlight the threat that deforestation poses to our climate.

At Devcon’s 2022 Sustainable Blockchain Summit in Bogotá, Colombia, I met innovators harnessing blockchain to offset carbon emissions, preserve the Amazon Rainforest and curb deforestation and pollution.

Consider the experience of communities in Borneo — an island that’s home to poor, rural villages scattered throughout one of the world’s major rainforests, threatened by deforestation.