Detailed Outline of Speech 2
- AGD:
We
should pursue a course action where we purge the government of Honduras of
corrupted officials that seek to destroy or harm the rain forest of Mongabay. The
purpose of this speech is to look at the illegal ring of logging that is
spawned from the average person in Honduras to a government official. In
this speech I will be talking about a part of the illegal ring of logging that is
harmful to the Mongabay rain forest and some of the efforts that are being done
that aim to mitigate deforestation. There is no magic bullet. The issues we
confront cannot be addressed by a single solution, but by addressing the
corruption within the government of Honduras is a necessary but insufficient
step in the right direction.
- Problems/Harms: the negative effects of the status
quo, or the current configuration.
.
What is the status quo?
a.
What is wrong with the
status quo?
The
inherent problem if this continues at the rate of which it did between the
years of 1990 and 2005 Honduras will have cleared out the rainforest of
Mongabay within a hundred years. Within 15 years, Honduras cleared 37% in its
overall forest coverage. As Honduras struggles to recover and regain some
forest coverage, Mexico has stepped in to lend a helping hand. In June of 2019,
Mexico is extending its reforestation program into Honduras and is increasing
its funding by 100 million U.S. dollars. That is a lot of money, but money is
not the only issue that needs confrontation to allow the forest to return to
the size it once was. Corruption is the second side to the story that needs
correcting to have a happy ending.
The
obstacles that are confronted with tackling a problem that ultimately starts
with the government ends with the people is corruption. In
order to have any effect with recovering the coverage of forests within
Honduras, government officials as well as corrupted companies need to be
removed from the equation entirely. There have several instances where the
people are peacefully protesting, companies and the government send soldiers to
intimidate the local population to the point where they are no longer any
threat to their operation. On one occasion during a peaceful protest from the
local population to illegal logging of the rainforest, they were confronted by
the COBRAS military team. Incidentally COBRAS happen to be the elite
counterinsurgency team that the Honduras government owns. In a following
example, in 2001, Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez who was
going out and peacefully protesting, he was pushed off the road at gunpoint and
given by the counterparty a hand grenade that was shoved into his chest. The
instances of corruption and intimidation on the governmental level in Honduras
goes on and on. Furthermore, these are just the instances that are known about
from intelligence sources.
Not only are governmental officials
corrupt, but the companies that are seeking to expand their logging industry
through illegal means also need to be purged to allow the local population to
regrow Mongabay. Some companies that seek to log have been known to use illegal
tactics to continue their logging operations. The one company where there is
anecdotal evidence is the Honduran Corporation
for Forestry Development company. No instance of wrongdoing is noted
except for the denunciation of the company by the Environmental
Movement of Olancho for their tactics of intimidating local citizens and
threatening them with death when they do accept bribes from them to allow to
them to log sectors of the Mongabay without impeding efforts. To that I can
find there are no recorded instance of this happening, however, if there is a
denunciation of a company from a movement then there has to some validity to
what they are saying; even if no recorded instances are found for the everyday
public.
A
possible step by step solution is as followed. First, there must be an outcry
from the people demanding a change or removal of specific corrupted officials
that have direct ties in allowing illegal logging of the rain forest that can
heard from multiple countries. Then, those countries would do investigations of
the government of Honduras to determine which official is corrupt. To make
sure, it is not a corrupted official doing all the reviews of Honduras’ government
it would be spread out amongst a randomly selected committee. Honduras will
allow these investigations to proceed because enough countries that trade with
them will place embargos and or threaten to halt proceedings with them until
the whole government has been purged from those that are deemed to be
affiliated with people who are in the business of illegal logging and
intimidation/force. The next steps that will proceed after the purging of corrupted
officials that have direct ties to the illegal logging is to bring in people
from local communities that are set against the logging of Mongabay and other
forests within their borders. The chances of the people that will be instated
into the vacant spots that could be corrupted is slim, because the picking will
be of a randomly selected group of people.
This
plan undoes and mitigates the harm that is being done now, by eliminating them
from the result. It is the aim of it and has the possibility of being
implemented because it will give power to the people, which they desperately
want and seek; but it will also limit the possibility of the incoming person
being corrupted. If they were a leader of the people fighting against the cruel
intimidation that the Honduras’ government is doing to them, then they could not be corrupted to get the peoples support in being let to lead
the cause. This
plan in my opinion overcomes the barriers of corruption and influence by having
a randomized sequence of inputs that will only be touched by the creator of the
code that is used to select the person that will fill the vacant seat. To
ensure that the creator of the code is unbiased and not corrupted they would not be
told the nature of which there code will be used. All they would be asked to do
is to create a sequence of which a series of inputs can be randomized to the
greatest extent. Then, all copies of the code will be sealed and be given to a
random keeper that will be given a new identity and a new life after hiding the
code in a place that was randomly given based on the second series of outputs
from the code. The reason for randomization is so that no one knows who is
doing what, so the chances of bribing or intimidation is reduced to the bare
minimum. . Lastly, the creator of the code will only know what the code needs
to be able to do. After that, the code will be handed off to someone who’ll
then input the names of a list that was gathered by multiple people. Then they
will press enter and let the code run to pick the people that will fill the
vacant spots.
Ultimately,
if we can mitigate some of these circumstances it is better than paralysis or
inaction in the face of climate crisis. The
purpose of this speech was to explicitly show that there is a direct link to
corrupt officials, and the illegal logging industry, that makes up a good
portion of the lumber coming out of Honduras. In
order to mitigate and start to repair the damage done to Mongabay rain forest is
if the government of Honduras is purged of all officials who can be connected
to the illegal logging and acts of intimidation that are used on the local
population.
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