"Fuck the trees and the residents, who weren't really treated badly at all, unless I missed something?"
cor, doesn't take much, does it!?
I was idly speculating about the motives behind a rich man playing with peoples lives. I now stand by what I said ... to remove a people from an area because they are percieved as racially "wrong" is ethnic cleansing. If you kill them, then it's genocide
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330371215/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-4964078-8915867
A community is still a community, and a tree is still a tree, even if it's located somewhere someone with more money and power finds inconvenient
come and have a go etc etc ...
RG