Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests
by William W. Bevis
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Author: William W. BevisEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10
ISBN: 0295974168
Number of pages: 245
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Book Reviews of Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests
Book Review: Third World resources feed First World consumption and waste
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a story written in diary format by the author
who after a year as an exchange professor at Tokyo University
spent part of the next year living with native activists
fighting the resistance to Japanese logging, and Japanese timber
camp managers, on Borneo,the third largest island on earth which lies
just north of the Indonesian archipelago in the South China Sea.
This is a poignant travel narrative as well as a serious environmental
study of the exploitation of third world resources.
The true irony of the story of Borneo's rapdily disappearing
rainforest, and the local corruption and greed which siphon off
most of the profits, while native rights and land uses are
obliterated, (sounds like America in the early 19th century!)
is that most of the timber shipped to Japan
is used to feed Japan's wholesale adoption of American habits:
buy it, use it, throw it away, buy another! Much of the wood is
being used to make cheap furniture
and plywood forms for concrete that are thrown away after several uses.
Unlike America's own trees on vast land masses,Japan has little
to support such habits. This is really another story which is symptomatic
of first world countries exploitation of third world resources - and the
hypocrisy of the United States' condemnation of such practices.
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