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Today's Star:   One Citizen, One Tree: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/23/nation/6112049&sec=nation   Council to plant a tree for every child born in Perak http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/23/nation/6112622&sec=nation   And lovely Sabah, home to Maliau , and what's left of the Orang Utan race : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/23/nation/6113557&sec=nation   Today Near The Farm:  ...

 Saw this on the way back from the farm today.  There were 6 of these trucks.  Some of the logs must be from trees that are 80 to 100 years old.  Wish I were an economist; then it would be a simple matter of working out the numbers that nobody benefits from cutting down these trees.  Not the people, not the country.  Not when you add up all the indirect, long term costs, including...