"THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the dwindling wildlands of the world have increasingly run into a discomfiting tension between the impulse toward absolute preservation and the needs of people -- many of them indigenous -- who have lived sustainably in forestlands for decades or centuries. Such tensions are playing out in the new economics of carbon offsets." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet