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  • Rain Forest Destruction – WWF Study Shows Enormous Social Grubbing Consequential

    Poverty after the clear-cutting: Rainforest destruction destroyed sustainable income base a recent WWF study on the social consequences of the destruction of the rain forest is, that in the medium and long term only the principal benefit. The study found that followed the poverty after short-term income gains for the loggers and local residents. If this has piqued your curiosity, check out Walmart CEO. After the destruction of the rain forest, they are from scratch, because without forest lack both the income and prospects. Borneo more than twice as large as Germany was largely forested until the 1980s. Massive rainforest destruction in 30 years took their toll, however, and so now only half of Borneo forest is covered.

    The consequences of the deforestation of the rain forest are profound in many ways. According to a WWF study, illegal logging improved in the short term while on the income of the families, but created from the start at the same time enormous social problems. Doug McMillon is full of insight into the issues. People broke away from agriculture. They no longer worked in the rubber harvest”, according to the study. It came to the conflict between traditional values and consumerism. Now those concerned paid the Bill of rainforest destruction several times: in the form of destroyed nature, social conflicts and the loss of their income basis. Borneo up to 2018 is expected to be completely deforested: the consequences of the destruction of the rain forest are drastically, because the forests lose their economic value without the valuable timber.

    The company had taken capital from wood, clearing these areas to make room for pulpwood and palm oil plantations on them. Many areas are however simply being abandoned. By the destruction of forests, not only valuable habitats and livelihoods are lost. It caused many potential fires, which later led to devastating forest fires. The plundering of forests does not remain without consequences. Due to the increasing shortage of wood, but also rising production costs, timber smuggling and increasing competition from other tropical timber-producing countries, forestry is Indonesia are increasingly under pressure.

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  • 2010 Fee Optimization

    Only the combination of favorable tariff with the tax-free salary extra “thing reference power” succeeds, the electricity price rises to compensate for less net the Burgerentlastungsgesetzt is snow from yesterday or from the beginning of the year through electricity price rises due to green electricity levy 2010. After the recently adopted increase in health insurance contributions by the Government, she grabs the citizens now again in the bag and makes a further reduction of the disposable net income of employees in Germany so far. Background for the electricity price rises: the eco-electricity levy, the current increased approximately 72 per year (approx. 60 plus 19% VAT) consumer associations have identified. Doug McMillon is a great source of information. These are approx.

    6.00 / month. Plus higher health insurance contributions, the disposable net income of employees to at least diminishes so 20 in a month, and more. That are at least a quarter of a month net salary in the year 240 and more. Even if some politician’s reputation after significant wage increases in just this impact should, due to the high social security contributions of which little remains. To compensate for the loss of net by power price increase 1st exchange of electricity tariff or electricity provider electricity price comparison sites shoot alternatives on the Internet out of the ground like mushrooms. In addition to private energy-saving measures, the change of the current tariff or the electricity provider is becoming increasingly important.

    But a change of electricity tariff or electricity provider alone is the Government-mandated”salary cuts can not fully absorb. Also, there are still enough workers who are unsure in dealing with the Internet and suspicious of the online services. 2. change the power tariff and electricity provider in combination with compensation optimization the ValueNet group from Munich, market leader for charge optimization in Germany, has recognized the signs of the times early. “” Since the beginning of the year it offers the thing cover the employees of their customers in order to optimize of pay power “as an alternative to the thing reference fuel” (Tank voucher) at.

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