Some industry analysts foresee over $50 billion in new investment by 2015, much of it in Brazil, China and Indonesia.The Centre for International Forestry Research, which is based in Indonesia, has just issued a new report on logging, which was paid for by the European Commission and Britain's Department for International Development.
So what does he foresee over the next couple of years?
Despommier has been working on vertical farming for more than 10 years, inspired by population experts that foresee over 9 billion people on the planet by 2050.
And we need to think about what we're doing that will minimize that tomorrow, or maximize that tomorrow, in addition to the great-nation conflicts that we can foresee over the next decade or so.
But while these other confessions are curios of their era, remembered only by historians, Proust's questionnaires have had a far-reaching influence that their young author could scarcely have foreseen, becoming, over time, the template for one of the most widely administered personality quizzes in history.
You might not think anyone could have predicted these results, but they were brilliantly foreseen just over 150 years ago, when Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
There are no penalties foreseen for giving companies over-generous tax arrangements, nor is it clear what other governments can do if they discover they are forfeiting revenue because of another EU government's sweetheart deal.
But the welterweight Vernon Forrest claimed that he had foreseen his victory over Shane Mosley in the kind of vision usually attributed to the likes of Nostradamus.
A year ago who could have foreseen the Macron phenomenon, taking over the French presidency and dominating the country's parliament?
