Can the Earth Wait for Payday?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/science/earth/30climate.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=indonesia&st=cse&scp=9
Time and again stories are published about some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems destroyed for the sake of profit. Money, the root of all evil, blinds even country leaders to desimate what is most beautiful about a country. The result of this destruction: global impacts on climate change. On the front page of Monday’s New York Times was an article entitled “The Road to Copenhagen: A Harvestor of Trees Offers to Save an Indonesian Forest.” This article is yet another case study in how the ornery, motivated by money, are willing to destroy the home to tigers, monkeys, bears, and crocodiles if the United Nations doesn’t “pay up.”
The article says, “Canals — used legally and illegally — extend from surrounding rivers nearly into the peninsula’s impenetrable core. By slowly draining and drying the peat land, they are releasing carbon dioxide, contributing to making Indonesia the world’s third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the United States.” The heart of the issue though, is that Indonesia claims that logging is necessary for the economy of the country, and will not cease logging until they are payed substantially to make up for their economic loss. The article says that deforestation accounts for 20% of the Earth’s global warming conflict. How can a government look at a number like that and know that they are, in part, responsible for it, and still stick their hands out as if to be payed for a job well done?
The solution? The Asia Pacific Resources International Limited, or April, plans to plant a ring of trees surrounding the peninsula to be used for industrial purposes, therefore protecting the trees on the inside. “If April acquired control over the core, it could be paid for protecting it.” As in, if it is not passed that they get the funding from the UN, then action will not be taken. This is obscene. The value of the Earth and its non-human inhibitants should take precedence over the logistics of a paycheck. It could take months, possibly years, before the issue in Indonesia is solved. Can the Earth afford to wait that long though, especially with Indonesia being such a large contributer of greenhouse gases? It could be too late by then, and the damage caused in the meantime is irreversable.