“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Lewis Carroll.

I don’t have the answer, especially in light of how fast deforestation is destroying our global hope for survival.

Meanwhile I’ve found a book that addresses global and subnational issues of the world’s forests, societies and environment, taking an independent, non-governmental point of view. The authors make recommendations for modern science and modern society regarding the successful transition from deforestation to a more sustainable and equitable future for the world’s forests. These are based on transitions that are already taking place.

And here’s a video from National Geographic that touches also on this issue. In it we meet a shaman who searches the rain forest of Paraguay for medicinal cures.

“May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness; may all be free from sorrow and the causes of sorrow; may all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is sorrowless; and may all live in equanimity, without too much attachment and too much aversion, and live believing in the equality of all that lives.”