On Feb. 28, 2010, troops acting on behalf of a British forestry company that fights global warming evicted residents in Uganda’s Mubende District.

They did so to make way for a tree plantation that would absorb carbon dioxide so carbon credits could be sold to transnational polluters. Longtime villagers in thriving, permanent communities were beaten by gun-toting soldiers who burned homes, destroyed crops and butchered livestock.

Recommended Stories

Fight federal abuse of property rights by making the government obey its own rules

Electricity for Africa initiative could help make ‘High-Energy Planet’ vision a reality

U.N. elites plan poverty for all at Rio eco-bash