General Assembly Resolution #740 “Timber Production and Sale Oversight” (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: Logging) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

The World Assembly,

Acknowledging that food supplies are needed to prevent starvation, that reduced supplies of food increase prices for food, thereby harming ordinary people's standards of living while also posing threats to the political stability of member nations,

Accepting the fact that sometimes old growth forests need to be cut down because member nations may need farmland to grow food to feed people,

Dismayed that GA 740 Timber Production And Sale Oversight imposes substantial restrictions on the sale of timber from such farmland, making it difficult for member nations to pay for the equipment and start-up costs associated with setting up those farms (that again are needed so to have land on which to grow food to feed people),

Believing that it is unfair to entrench historic inequalities by rewarding nations that deforested first with huge advantages in arable lands for food production while, at the same time, making it difficult for hungry nations without large amounts of arable land to become self-sufficient,

Troubled by the kind of economic relations which could emerge in such circumstances which would put nations with large populations and little arable land into a forced economic dependence on historically-advantaged food producers, and

Accepting that it is likely that replacement legislation will be brought to mollify the environmental harms without these harms, hereby

Repeals GA 740 Timber Production And Sale Oversight.