Environmentalist Busybodies

The good news is that you've survived the 30 foot wall of water that left 128,000 of your countrymen dead. The bad news is that you and 500,000 others are now homeless. Time to gather some lumber and build yourself some shelter, right?Wrong.

Unauthorised logging has increased dramatically since the December 26 tsunami disaster as demand for the wood to be used in reconstruction phase has soared, said Frank Momberg of Fauna and Flora International.

"To prevent a bigger disaster in Aceh, illegal logging must be stopped," Momberg told AFP on the sidelines of an environmental conference in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.

He said 1,000 hectares of forests in Aceh Jaya district had been destroyed by illegal logging and only a small amount of legal wood was being used in Aceh's reconstruction.

It's almost breathtaking. Lecture after lecture from the environmentalists about "sustainability," and when someone uses a renewable resource for shelter, another lecture about illegal versus legal logging. Is there nothing these pompous do-gooders won't sniff there nose an pronounce judgement upon? The article goes on to explain why to these moonbats, war is good and peace is bad:

Environmentalists have said that three decades of separatist conflict in Aceh had protected the region from illegal logging that has destroyed vast tracts of Indonesia's forests.

But they said with peace talks underway in the wake of the tsunami disaster, the region may be targeted by timber barons keen to make fast cash supplying wood for the province's resconstruction.

Why not just write the headline: "Peace Talks Threaten Forest"