Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia, by Lukas Straumann
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Money Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called ìprobably the biggest environmental crime of our timesîóthe massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers. Historian and campaigner Lukas Straumann goes in search not only of the lost forests and the people who used to call them home, but also the network of criminals who have earned billions through illegal timber sales and corruption. Straumann singles out Abdul Taib Mahmud, current governor of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, as the kingpin of this Asian timber mafia, while he shows that Taibís familyówith the complicity of global financial institutionsó have profited to the tune of 15 billion US dollars. Money Logging is a story of a people who have lost their ancient paradise to a wasteland of oil palm plantations, pollution, and corruptionóand how they hope to take it back.
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia, by Lukas Straumann- Amazon Sales Rank: #2078941 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Released on: 2014-01-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review A unique way of life in the rainforests has been destroyed in a single generation. Read this book and weep.But then get angry. --Wade DavisOne of the most comprehensive and brutally honest investigations into the intrigues of the Malaysian and international timber mafia. --Süddeutsche ZeitungIn thrilling chapters historian Lukas Straumann gives the portrait of a clan ofkleptocrats, who, through the granting of timber concessions and export icenses, have managed to become billionaires. --Neue Zürcher ZeitungOne of the most comprehensive and brutally honest investigations into the intrigues of the Malaysian and international timber mafia. --Süddeutsche ZeitungIn thrilling chapters historian Lukas Straumann gives the portrait of a clan ofkleptocrats, who, through the granting of timber concessions and export icenses, have managed to become billionaires. --Neue Zürcher Zeitung
About the Author Lukas Straumann is the executive director of the Bruno Manser Fund in Basel, Switzerland.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. DESPICABLE THEM By Philip Bailey Despicable would not be strong enough. I ran the gamut of negative emotions, outrage, disgust, sorrow. To use every day descriptive vernacular would invite censoring. Through the years I have often heard news of the shrinking rain forests around the world. I attributed it to the increasing world population. I also heard briefs on Palm Oil Plantations and envisioned farms as one might see in the bread baskets of the world. If half of the stories in Money Logging are true, the desecration of our planet by these criminals far exceed disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill or the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Imagine if you can Eden, where the indigenous people live entirely on the bounty of the rain forest. No need to raise crops or farms of livestock for consumption. Try to envision the spectacular species of flowers, birds, butterflies and other exotic gifts of nature. Now read Money Logging and find how graft, corruption, greed and every despicable human characteristic known to exist has been and is destroying these very natural resources. Day to day warnings of global warming, stories of droughts, floods, mudslides and other so called natural disasters can likely be traced in part to the destruction of these rain forests. Unknown and perhaps gone are the plants waiting for discovery that may produce medical cures. Gone are the trees known to remove carbon dioxide and other toxins. And can it be genocide when an indigenous population is deprived of their ability to obtain sustenance? Maybe not genocide by definition but perhaps extermination by deprivation. All this for the quest for power and wealth of a few of the world’s bad characters, many of whom are of an extended family. These people make recent dictators of the Middle East seem like good Samaritans. The lot of them should be exiled to a snake infested Island so they can live out the rest of their lives with their resident relatives. This book should be mandatory reading for every literate being in the affected countries.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Excellent and well-researched book By rich harvell This excellent and important book is a great introduction to the terrible environmental and financial crimes that have happened on Borneo over the last fifty years. It is an exciting read--starting with the thrilling story of a whistleblower--and helped me understand the link between corruption and destruction of natural resources, not only in Asia, but around the world.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Important and Timely book By EugeSchu Looking forward to the documentations of this book about the Borneo rainforest destruction by Malaysian loggers. Congratulations to indigenous activists celebrating one year of their successful blockade with enjoyment of cultural festivities.
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